"Politics is the art of looking for trouble" (probably Benn, not Groucho)

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This quote came up yesterday, attributed to Groucho Marx. Does Fred have  it?
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_http://www.r8ny.com/blog/1_west_street/the_words_of_groucho_marx_as_applied_t
o_tom_suozzi.html_
(http://www.r8ny.com/blog/1_west_street/the_words_of_groucho_marx_as_applied_to_tom_suozzi.html)
_The  Words of Groucho Marx as Applied to Tom Suozzi_
(http://www.r8ny.com/blog/1_west_street/the_words_of_groucho_marx_as_applied_to_tom_suozzi.html)

Tom should have read Grouch Marx before he stepped in over his head.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing
 it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx
Submitted by _1 West  Street_ (http://www.r8ny.com/user/1_west_street)  on
Mon, 2006-06-19 23:04.
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8 September 1946, New York Times, pg. SM16:
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it wrongly, and applying unsuitable remedies."--_Sir Ernest  Benn_.
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27 October 1948, THE ERA (Bradford, PA), pg. 4, col. 3:
_IMPOLITIC POLITICS_
London (AP) -- Definition by publisher Sir Ernest Benn at a Society of
Individualists luncheon: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it
whether it exists or not, diagnosing it wrongly and applying it  incorrectly."

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