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Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Author: Mao Tse-tung
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The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
Author: Henry Cate Vii
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I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.
Author: George C. Wallace
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Author: E. B. White
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A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
Author: Alfred E. Wiggam
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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
Author: George F. Will
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Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.
Author: W. Willard Wirtz
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The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Author: Deng Xiaoping
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You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
Author: Thomas P. O'neill
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The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
Author: John Jay Chapman
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A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
Author: Lord Bryce
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There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
Author: Richard M. Nixon
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The political world is stimulating. It's the most interesting thing you can do. It beats following the dollar.
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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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 menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Author: H. L. Mencken
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Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Author: Charles De Gaulle
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I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
Author: Harry S. Truman
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Politics makes strange bed-fellows.
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
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Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
Author: Dave Barry
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We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.
Author: Robert Bianco
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The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
Author: David Friedman
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The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
Author: De Delloy
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True patriots we; for be it understood we left our country for our country's good.
Author: George Barrington
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
Author: Sarah Boseley
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The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.
Author: Will Foley
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A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.
Author: Clifford Irving
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The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.
Author: Walter Bagehot
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The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.
Author: David Friedman
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A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.
Author: Walter Bagehot
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
Author: T. S. Eliot
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I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
Author: Geraldine A. Ferraro
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
Author: James William Fulbright
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Author: John W. Gardner
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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Author: Barry M. Goldwater
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If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Author: Meg Greenfield
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We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
Author: Martin L. Gross
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Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Author: Doug Gwyn
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Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites".
Author: Larry Hardiman
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
Author: Gary Hart
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Author: Nikita S. Khrushchev
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
Author: Edward Koch
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Author: Edward Koch
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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Author: Doug Larson
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
Author: A. J. Liebling
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They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Author: Clare Boothe Luce
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
Author: Neal Barnard, M.d.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Author: Margaret Mead
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