"My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel."

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In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a war the end of which no man could foretell. With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years.... I therefore voted for James Buchanan as President.

— Ulysses S. Grant