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Politics

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Benn, Tony

Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Reagan, Ronald

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Greenfield, Meg

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Clark, Alan

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Kissinger, Henry

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.

Chapman, John Jay

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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.

Byrne, Robert

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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.

Powell, L. R.

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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Greeley, Horace

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Goldwater, Barry

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Marx, Karl

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At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Macmillan, Harold

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A politician is one that would circumvent God.

Shakespeare, William

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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Truman, Harry S

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Twain, Mark

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

President Barack Obama

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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Brown, Jerry

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Cary, Joyce

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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.

Colby, Frank Moore

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If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Grant, Amy

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Rich, Adrienne

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

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If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Sherman, William T.

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When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Truman, Harry S

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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.

Waugh, Auberon

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Ashdown, Paddy

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Amis, Kingsley

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Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.

Dane, Frank

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

Macaulay, Lord

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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Kennedy, John F.

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Marx, Karl

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Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Rogers, Will

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

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I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Tweed, Boss

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Koestler, Arthur

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

Major, John