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Politics

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Kennedy, Joseph

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

Fischer, John

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

Rogers, Will

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

Thoreau, Henry David

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butler

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

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Quinton, John

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

Gaitskell, Hugh

10.

Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Clarke, James Freeman

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In politics the middle way is none at all.

Adams, John

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What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Will, George F.

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Politics makes strange postmasters.

Hubbard, Kin

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To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

Safire, William

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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Goldwater, Barry

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

Nixon, Richard M.

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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

Canning, George

24.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Blake, William

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

Major, John

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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The essential ingredient in politics is timing.

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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

Franklin, Billy Boy

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

Platen

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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics -- none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Orwell, George

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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

Johnson, Samuel

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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

Clinton, Bill

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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Plato

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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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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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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

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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When great questions end, little parties begin.

Bagehot, Walter

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