The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.
Originality is undetected plagiarism.