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Ron Johnson: “Power corrupts.”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Ron Johnson on the DarkHorse Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 06:37

You don't get very far in business arguing all the time, you've got a product, I want to buy it, or vice versa. Now we'll haggle over the price. So that's very destructive part of politics. … Power corrupts. … government. Government provides people the power that they are able to then corrupt. And so, you know, the genius of our founding fathers was they came from dictatorial monarchies and other regimes. (06:37–06:39)

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