"It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is."

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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

— John le Carre