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Politics

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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

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

Herriot, Edouard

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Field, Franklin

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

Ephron, Nora

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

Major, John

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Marx, Groucho

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery

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

Cannon, Joseph

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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Hubbard, Kin

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

17.

To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.

Platen

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Hazlitt, William

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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

Clinton, Bill

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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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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Parker, Theodore

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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Einstein, Albert

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Bacon, Francis

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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The first mistake in public business is going into it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 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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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

President Barack Obama

39.

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

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

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Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French t?te (head or face, as in t?te-?-t?te: head to head or face to face). Hence

Pitt, Martin

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Weber, Max

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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Nash, Ogden

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

Benn, Tony

48.

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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Never answer a question from a farmer.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.