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Politics

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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

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Naito, Fern

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Adams, Henry Brooks

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

Chapman, John Jay

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Weber, Max

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Bryan, William Jennings

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Rostand, Jean

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Finality is not the language of politics.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Rogers, Will

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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Herriot, Edouard

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.

French National Assembly

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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Heath, Edward

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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

Fischer, John

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

Mccarthy, Eugene J.

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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heine, Heinrich

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Wilde, Oscar

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

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A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Hearst, William Randolph

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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

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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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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

Marx, Karl

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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Politics is the science of urgencies.