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Politics

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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Galsworthy, John

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Rogers, Will

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Churchill, Winston

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Cannon, Joseph

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Mill, John Stuart

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Churchill, Winston

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Montalbano, Benjamin J.

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

Mencken, H. L.

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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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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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Mencken, H. L.

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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

Truman, Harry S

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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Brodie, Fawn M.

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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Rogers, Will

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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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Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Mcewan, Ian

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

Cary, Joyce

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When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Arbuthnot, John

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Gaulle, Charles De

35.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Gaitskell, Hugh

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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

Ringer, Robert J.

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Nkrumah, Kwame

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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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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Brittain, Vera

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Higgins, George V.

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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

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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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Macmillan, Harold