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| If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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| Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S Truman Quotes |
| Man is by nature a political animal. Aristotle Quotes |
| In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. Jacob Bronowski Quotes |
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| Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| A politician is a person who thinks twice before he says nothing. Joe Moore Quotes |
| Differences in political opinion are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary. George Washington Quotes |
| A week is a long time in politics. Harold Wilson Quotes |
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| A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. Henry Louis Mencken Quotes |
| He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. Sir Walter Besant Quotes |
| I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
| Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
| In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant. Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
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| University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Henry Kissinger Quotes |
| The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians. Andy Rooney Quotes |
| A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Lee Frost Quotes |
| An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought. Simon Cameron Quotes |
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| Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. Dwight Morrow Quotes |
| Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. Henry Louis Mencken Quotes |
| Diplomacy is the art of saying Will Rogers Quotes |
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| Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. Will Rogers Quotes |
| Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. Will Rogers Quotes |
| I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. Harry S Truman Quotes |
| In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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| It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marx Quotes |
| The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. Mark Twain Quotes |
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| The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. Will Rogers Quotes |
| Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes |
| Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| Politics is applesauce. Will Rogers Quotes |
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| An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. Henry Louis Mencken Quotes |
| To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. Sir William Penn Quotes |
| I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by
the animosities he excites among his opponents. Winston Churchill Quotes |
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| "To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles." Anonymous Quotes |
| Definition of Politics: "Poli" in latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "blood-sucking parasites." Anonymous Quotes |
| Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams Quotes |
| Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry Adams Quotes |
| Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces. Henry Adams Quotes |
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| "The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark." Jack Anderson Quotes |
| Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. Bernard Baruch Quotes |
| In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. John Berger Quotes |
| Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable...the art of the next best. Otto von Bismarck Quotes |
| "Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs." David Borenstein Quotes |
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| Not everyone is attracted to politics…. [S]cholars found that more than half the adults in Wayne County (Detroit) Michigan thought that politics was dirty and dishonest. Nearly half the political volunteers and political workers in the county thought so, too. David Botter Quotes |
| “The many marvels of our world – proximately the consequence of technology, ultimately the consequence of free markets and rational thought – are possible only insofar as we no longer really believe in magic. We don’t pray to, or dance for, rain gods; we use our minds and machines to irrigate fields. Most of us don’t depend upon unseen, otherworldly forces to maintain our health and extend our life spans; we rely upon medical science. If we want to extend our knowledge, we read books or watch educational television programs; we don’t study tea leaves or gopher entrails. But one serious species of belief in magic continues to haunt us: politics. Many of us – indeed, most of us – believe that high priests who utter or write certain words according to treasured ceremonial prescriptions and done in certain temples (usually made of marble and topped with domes) can perform magic. They can’t. But they try and try – and too many of us simply have faith that their rituals are effective.” Don Boudreaux Quotes |
| The most important political office is that of private citizen. Louis D. Brandeis Quotes |
| The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. Jimmy Breslin Quotes |
| Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke Quotes |
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| A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. Robert Byrne Quotes |
| There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price. Shirley Chisholm Quotes |
| A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. Sir Winston Churchill Quotes |
| Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. Frank Moore Colby Quotes |
| "Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches." King Henry IV of France Quotes |
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| Fr., "I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday." King Henry IV of France Quotes |
| "A camel is a horse designed by committee." Sir Alec Issigonis Quotes |
| "My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight." John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships. David Mathews Quotes |
| Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. Eugene McCarthy Quotes |
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| A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. H. L. Mencken Quotes |
| "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H. L. Mencken Quotes |
| "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." P. J. O'Rourke Quotes |
| Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? Robert Orben Quotes |
| Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. Peggy Noonan Quotes |
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| "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." Plato Quotes |
| Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues. Colin Powell Quotes |
| Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes. Will Rogers Quotes |
| "If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve." Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes |
| It is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam of voices, shouting “go right” and “go left” at the same time. Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
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| I am under the impression that in nine out of ten cases I deal with windbags who do not fully realize what they take upon themselves, but who intoxicate themselves with romantic sensations. From a human point of view this is not very interesting to me, nor does it move me profoundly. However, it is immensely moving when a mature man – no matter whether old or young in years – is aware of a responsibility for the consequences of his conduct and really feels such responsibility with heart and soul. He then acts by following an ethic of responsibility and somewhere he reaches the point where he says: “Here I stand; I can do no other.” That is something genuinely human and moving. And every one of us who is not spiritually dead must realize the possibility of finding himself at some time in that position. Max Weber Quotes |
| I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. Will Rogers Quotes |
| No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials. Will Rogers Quotes |
| Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians and I love to watch both of 'em play either back home in their native state or after they have been captured and sent to the zoo or to Washington. Will Rogers Quotes |
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| Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke Will Rogers Quotes |
| Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. Wendell Phillips Quotes |
| A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole. Vaclav Havel Quotes |
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| I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,—entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigour, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; …freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, — these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. Robert Frost Quotes |
| The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Robert M. Hutchins Quotes |
| As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. Saul Alinsky Quotes |
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| When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. Sinclair Lewis Quotes |
| I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln? Robert Coles Quotes |
| Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. Richard M. Nixon Quotes |
| Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| These rabble at Washington ... see, against the unanimous expression of the people, how much a little well-directed effrontery can achieve, how much crime the people will bear, and they proceed from step to step... (Journal, June 1846) Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. Plato Quotes |
| The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato Quotes |
| Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Paulo Freire Quotes |
| The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power. Paul Wellstone Quotes |
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| Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse. P. J. O'Rourke Quotes |
| In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. P. J. O'Rourke Quotes |
| The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. Otto Van Bismarck Quotes |
| A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it. Oscar Levant Quotes |
| There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past. Noam Chomsky Quotes |
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| States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. Noam Chomsky Quotes |
| If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time. Noam Chomsky Quotes |
| American Society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics. Noam Chomsky Quotes |
| Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. Nikita Krushchev Quotes |
| You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to. Molly Ivins Quotes |
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| Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. Mohandas K. Gandhi Quotes |
| The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. Molly Ivins Quotes |
| As a veteran of many an electoral defeat at the polls, may I remind you of the proper Texan attitude toward slaughter at the polls? Molly Ivins Quotes |
| Good thing we've still got politics in Texas -- finest form of free entertainment ever invented. Molly Ivins Quotes |
| Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother? Molly Ivins Quotes |
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| That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen. Michael Harrington Quotes |
| Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes |
| Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Citizenship is what makes a republic -- monarchies can get along without it. Mark Twain Quotes |
| No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. Mark Twain Quotes |
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| We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem. Marian Wright Edelman Quotes |
| People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests. Marian Wright Edelman Quotes |
| The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. Mark Twain Quotes |
| My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought. Margaret Chase Smith Quotes |
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| The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. Lord Acton Quotes |
| Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. Lily Tomlin Quotes |
| Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. Lily Tomlin Quotes |
| As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. Justice William O. Douglas Quotes |
| Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. Johnny Carson Quotes |
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| Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can. John Gardner Quotes |
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| There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. John Adams Quotes |
| I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. John Adams Quotes |
| When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism. Jim Hightower Quotes |
| The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. Jesse Jackson Quotes |
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| More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. Jeff Greenfield Quotes |
| The person who says "I'm not political" is in great danger.... Only the fittest will survive, and the fittest will be the ones who understand their office's politics. Jean Hollands Quotes |
| Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better. Jane Auer Quotes |
| All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life. Jean Goss Quotes |
| A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. James Madison Quotes |
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| Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy. Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes |
| It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. Henrik Ibsen Quotes |
| Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. quote verified at snopes.com Hermann Goering Quotes |
| Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. Harry S Truman Quotes |
| Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. Harriet Lerner Quotes |
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| A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. H. L. Mencken Quotes |
| In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. H. L. Mencken Quotes |
| A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. H. L. Mencken Quotes |
| Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. Goethe Quotes |
| Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marx Quotes |
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| In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. H. G. Wells Quotes |
| In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. George Orwell Quotes |
| In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell Quotes |
| What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles. George Wilhelm Hegel Quotes |
| You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. George Will Quotes |
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| Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics. George J. Mitchell Quotes |
| Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. George Burns Quotes |
| Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
| Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"frequently attributed to Robert F. (Bobby) Kennedy, who used it in a speech which his brother, Edward F. (Teddy) Kennedy quoted at RFK's funeral. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president. Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
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| When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
| It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment Elie Wiesel Quotes |
| An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes |
| Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. Freda Adler Quotes |
| The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it. [1941] Edward Dowling Quotes |
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| Politics are not the task of a Christian. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes |
| There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust. Demosthenes Quotes |
| Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. David Broder Quotes |
| The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club. Dave Barry Quotes |
| To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. Confucius Quotes |
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| Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidentially expect utopia. Both are wrong. Carolyn Heilbrun Quotes |
| A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. Carl Sandburg Quotes |
| The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." Carl Schurz Quotes |
| Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. Bill Moyers Quotes |
| Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal Quotes |
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| A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. Carl Sandberg Quotes |
| Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome. Benjamin Whichcote Quotes |
| I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. Ann Richards Quotes |
| What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Quotes |
| When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Anais Nin Quotes |
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| The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. Angela Davis Quotes |
| At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. Aldous Huxley Quotes |
| ... the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.Australian social scientist, quoted by Noam Chomsky in World Orders Old and New Alex Carey Quotes |
| I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. [1952] Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
| We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop Quotes |
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| A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
| The ballot is stronger than the bullet. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. W.C. Fields Quotes |
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| We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. Martin L. Gross Quotes |
| There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
| We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate. Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard Quotes |
| All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. H.L. Mencken, 1956 Quotes |
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| What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough. Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candi Quotes |
| A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. Leonard Bernstein, The New York Times, 3 Quotes |
| Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. Saul Bellow Quotes |
| In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
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| Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Plato Quotes |
| Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river. Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
| Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. William E. Gladstone, 1866 Quotes |
| When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. Clarence Darrow Quotes |
| George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| Truth is not determined by majority vote. Doug Gwyn Quotes |
| An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. T.S. Eliot Quotes |
| Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. Ernest Benn Quotes |
| We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. Stewart Udall Quotes |
| The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
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| A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio speech, 26 Quotes |
| Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. John Quinton Quotes |
| A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. Leo Rosten Quotes |
| The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. P.J. O'Rourke Quotes |
| Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
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| A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. Alfred E. Wiggam Quotes |
| Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. Robertson Davies Quotes |
| Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Times, Quotes |
| Don't vote, it only encourages them. Author Unknown Quotes |
| The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
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| The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
| I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
| Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. Charles Krauthammer Quotes |
| Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. Doug Larson Quotes |
| Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. Gore Vidal Quotes |
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| The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. Maureen Murphy Quotes |
| I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. Cissy Farenthold Quotes |
| There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. Oscar Ameringer Quotes |
| Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. Woodrow Wilson Quotes |
| I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
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Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork. Harold Lowman Quotes |
| He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. Richard Darman, director of the Office o Quotes |
| Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. Plato Quotes |
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| The problem with political jokes is they get elected. Henry Cate, VII Quotes |
| The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. Will Rogers Quotes |
| There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere. Hermione Gingold Quotes |
| I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Quotes |
| If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. Jay Leno Quotes |
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| Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions. Malcolm Bradbury Quotes |
| There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt Quotes |
| In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. H.L. Mencken Quotes |
| History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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| The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. Clare Boothe Luce Quotes |
| Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat. Vance Packard Quotes |
| A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. Texas Guinan Quotes |
| Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
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| Politics, n: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"] Larry Hardiman Quotes |
| If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. Emma Goldman Quotes |
| If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. Will Rogers Quotes |
| How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? Author Unknown Quotes |
| A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large. Finley Peter Dunne Quotes |
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| There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. Will Rogers Quotes |
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old
Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold;
This modern statesmen can reverse with ease -
Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.
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| We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in. Will Rogers Quotes |
| American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's-license age than at voting age. Marshall McLuhan Quotes |
| A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. André Malraux Quotes |
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| Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together. Sean O'Casey Quotes |
| The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark, its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time, one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase - some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse - into the dustbin where it belongs. George Orwell, "Politics and the Eng Quotes |
| He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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| It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. George E. MacDonald Quotes |
| A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. Murray Kempton Quotes |
| They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. Clare Booth Luce Quotes |
| If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. Lindsey Nelson Quotes |
| Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. Walter Lippmann Quotes |
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| A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson Quotes |
| Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. John Stuard Mill Quotes |
| The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. Lyman Bryson Quotes |
| During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa. Author Unknown Quotes |
| If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. Meg Greenfield Quotes |
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| When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P.J. O'Rourke Quotes |
| Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. George Jean Nathan Quotes |
| Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. Robert Byrne Quotes |
| The Christian Right is neither. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. James Harvey Robinson Quotes |
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| A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. James Freeman Clarke Quotes |
| I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. M.M. Coady Quotes |
| Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference. Dan Quayle Quotes |
| Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. George Will Quotes |
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| Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. Edward Cheyfitz Quotes |
| When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. John Gardner Quotes |
| Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao Zedong Quotes |
| The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. Marcel Achard Quotes |
| The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time. Franklin P. Adams Quotes |
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| Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry Brooks Adams Quotes |
| Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Brooks Adams Quotes |
| The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Quotes |
| Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. Saul David Alinsky Quotes |
| The truly skillful politician is one who, when he comes to a fork in the road, goes both ways. Marco A. Almazan Quotes |
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| All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. Dr. Arbthnot Quotes |
| In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home. Francois Arouet Quotes |
| Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. Russell Wayne Baker Quotes |
| The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin Quotes |
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| A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship. Ivern Ball Quotes |
| Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. Lucille Ball Quotes |
| Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society. Edward C. Banfield Quotes |
| The politician is an acrobat; he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says. Maurice Barrès Quotes |
| The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful. Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes |
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| Get thee glass eyes; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not. Mary Bertone Quotes |
| Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. Claire Huchet Bishop Quotes |
| Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons. Lester R(obert) Bittel Quotes |
| A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. Eubie Quotes |
| Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy. Irish Blessing Quotes |
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| The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom. Jean Bodin Quotes |
| In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napolean Bonaparte Quotes |
| Politics when I am in it, makes me sick. Edward de Bono Quotes |
| No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt. Robert H(eron) Bork Quotes |
| It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled. F. F. Bosworth Quotes |
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| Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow. Elias Boudinot Quotes |
| [About the rhinoceros:] Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste. Randolph Silliman Bourne Quotes |
| It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents. General Omar Nelson Bradley Quotes |
| Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. Vera Brittaiin Quotes |
| A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. Fawn M. Brodie Quotes |
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| I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change-within himself, not on the outside. Joseph Brodsky Quotes |
| For aesthetics is the mother of ethics…. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens. Joseph Brodsky Quotes |
| I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. William Frank Buckley, Jr. Quotes |
| You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Charles Bukowski Quotes |
| The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship. George Herbert Walker Bush Quotes |
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| An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. Simon Cameron Quotes |
| Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis. Colin Campbell Quotes |
| If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. John le Carre Quotes |
| You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other. James Earl Quotes |
| One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. James Earl Quotes |
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| Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy. Noam Chomsky Quotes |
| I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
| Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C(harles) Clarke Quotes |
| It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality. Henry Steele Commager Quotes |
| As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. Joseph Conrad Quotes |
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| Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. Anthony J. D'Angelo Quotes |
| I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. General Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
| In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. General Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
| Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. General Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
| In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant. General Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
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| The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place. John George Diefenbaker Quotes |
| Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American. David Duchovny Quotes |
| In Louisiana we don't bet on football games ... We bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not. Mark Duffy Quotes |
| The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. Gerald R. Ford Quotes |
| In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. Edward Morgan Forster Quotes |
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| History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Milton Friedman Quotes |
| The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. Richard Buckminster Fuller Quotes |
| Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.' John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes |
| All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake. Indira Nehru Gandhi Quotes |
| Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Quotes |
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| I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. Newt Gingrich Quotes |
| Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Quotes |
| What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. John B. Gough Quotes |
| I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue. Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. Quotes |
| Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. Richard Harris Quotes |
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| In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. Roy Hattersley Quotes |
| What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? Gilbert Highet Quotes |
| A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind. Richard Hofstadter Quotes |
| Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself. Herbert Clark Hoover Quotes |
| It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man. Herbert Clark Hoover Quotes |
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| The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position. Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes |
| Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Aldous Leonard Huxley Quotes |
| It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians. Richard Ingrams Quotes |
| I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
| What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
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| Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Quotes |
| My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?' Dexter Scott King Quotes |
| University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Henry Alfred Kissinger Quotes |
| Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it. Charles Krauthammer Quotes |
| America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. Peter Kropotkin Quotes |
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| It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. Charles Kuralt Quotes |
| Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never. Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine Quotes |
| Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave. Richard Lamm Quotes |
| In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. Irving Layton Quotes |
| Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. Irving Layton Quotes |
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| Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. Walter J. Lippmann Quotes |
| Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. Lord Macaulay Quotes |
| Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. Julius Henry Marx Quotes |
| Saying we should keep the two-party [political] system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts. Eugene J. McCarthy Quotes |
| Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. Herbert Quotes |
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| One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. Henry Miller Quotes |
| How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. Henry Miller Quotes |
| Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it. Walter Mondale Quotes |
| You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. Joe Moore Quotes |
| The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him. Edward R(oscoe) Murrow Quotes |
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| The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved. Edward R(oscoe) Murrow Quotes |
| I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes |
| Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes |
| Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. Peggy Noonan Quotes |
| Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume. Edmund Burke Quotes |
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| Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. Will Rogers Quotes |
| Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Remember to lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president. Be sure not to get too fat, because you'll have to sit three in the back seat. Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
| Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive. It's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grownups-all other games are for kids. Robert A. Heinlein Quotes |
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| I can't say it, but it rhymes with rich. Barbara Bush Quotes |
| I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me-toasted and buttered on both sides. Jesse Jackson Quotes |
| If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. Jesse Jackson Quotes |
| The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt. Jesse Jackson Quotes |
| We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesse Jackson Quotes |
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| Where there are two PhDs in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile. Herbert Samuel Quotes |
| I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqués, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
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| I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| We didn't have to do the minuets of diplomacy. We got down to business. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
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| I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
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| What Britain needs is an iron lady. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club. Dave Barry Quotes |
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| This administration is totally colorblind. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted-because everyone would join that party. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| [We seek] a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
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| I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking [and] now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
