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Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.200, Rowman & Littlefield
Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.