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 | "... in politics nothing is accidental. If something happens, be
assured it was planned this way." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not
of mere companionship." | |
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Aristotle
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| "A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic
duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States." | |
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Harry S. Truman
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| "A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform,
are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life." | |
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John Stuart Mill
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| "A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an
open mouth." | |
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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| "A politician thinks of the next election, a statesman, of the next
generation." | |
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James Freeman Clarke
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| "A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the
nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his
service." | |
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Georges Pomidou
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| "All politics are based on the indifference of the majority." | |
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James Reston
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| "Almost everywhere political secularization was accompanied at length
by a general decrease in religious observance. Theological matters ceased
to be, if they had ever genuinely been, the main interest of the people.
This does not mean that religion died out: far from it. But it became the
interest, not of the whole, but of a section of the people. The Church,
instead of being a recognized ruling authority, became what its Founder
said it was, a little yeast in a large lump of dough. In some countries it
barely maintained the right to exist; in others it had to adapt its methods
to new conditions. But wherever possible it has continued openly to pursue
the same ends, and has not ceased to declare what it believes to be the
will of God even in the political sphere. Indeed, we may recognize a gain
in the new situation. What it could once do by authority, it now seeks to
do by persuasion." | |
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J. W. C. Wand
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| "Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of
politics." | |
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Wendell Phillips
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| "Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second
in politics gets you oblivion." | |
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Richard Milhouse Nixon
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| "Good politics are often inextricably intertwined." | |
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Morris Udall
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| "He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so
well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and
favorable hearers." | |
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Richard Hooker
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| "History has been kinder to Churchill than many of his contemporaries
ever were. Some may be surprised to learn that the following luminary from
the field of science-fiction had anything political to say at all:
"Winston Churchill, the present would-be British Fuehrer, is a person with
a range of ideas limited to the adventures and opportunities of British
political life. He has never given evidence of thinking extensively, or of
any scientific or literary capacity.... His ideology, picked up in the
garrison life of India, on the reefs of South Africa, the maternal home
and the conversation of wealthy Conservative households, is a pitiful
jumble of incoherent nonsense. A boy scout is better equipped. He has
served his purpose and it is high time he retired upon his laurels before
we forget the debt we owe him...."" | |
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Herbert George Wells
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| "I don"t care to be involved in the crash landing unless I can be in
on the take off." | |
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Harold Stassen
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| "I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in
order to advance the political career of my husband." | |
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Pat Nixon
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| "I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are
sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this
country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in
this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I"m certainly not, and
I"m sick and tired of being told that I am." | |
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Monty Python
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| "If there?s anything a public servant hates to do it?s something for
the public." | |
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Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
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| "In politics it is necessary either to betray one"s country of the
electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate." | |
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
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| "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be
better to change the locks." | |
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Doug Larson
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| "It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole
country isn"t in flames, that there are people in the country
besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals." | |
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Charles Kuralt
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| "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the
highest political end." | |
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John Dalberg, Lord Acton
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| "My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician"s
car." | |
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Larry Hagman
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| "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad
reputation." | |
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Henry Alfred Kissinger
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| "No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe
at every moment of time." | |
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Henry A. Kissinger
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| "Now I know what a statesman is; he"s a dead politician. We need more
statesmen." | |
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Bob Edwards
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| "Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold
the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his
apologist. Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his
politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in
his democracy, that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle
measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in
his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor
very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite." | |
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Alexander Hamilton
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| "Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective
stories." | |
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Arthur C. Clarke
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| "Politics are a lousy way for a free man to get things done. Politics
are, like God"s infinite mercy, a last resort." | |
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| "Politics have no relation to morals." | |
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Niccoló Machiavelli
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| "Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack
a passion for living it." | |
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Thomas Eugene (Tom) Robbins
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| "Politics is not an exact science ... but an art." | |
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Otto von Bismarck
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| "Politics is not the art of the posssible. It consists in choosing
between the disastrous and the unpalatable." | |
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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| "Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is
thought necessary." | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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| "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come
to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." | |
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
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| "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." | |
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Groucho Marx
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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." | |
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Ernest Benn
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| "Politics is the art of the possible." | |
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Otto von Bismark
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| "Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects." | |
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Lester B. Pearson
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| "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with
bloodshed." | |
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Mao Tse-Tung
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| "Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for
individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order." | |
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Barry M. Goldwater
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| "Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been
the systematic organization of hatreds." | |
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Henry B. Adams
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| "Practical politics consists of ignoring facts." | |
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Henry Brooks Adams
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| "Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men
it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most
honorable adventure." | |
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Sir John Buchan
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| "Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree
in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and
rather political than religious." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "Sooner I"d try to change history than turn political, than try
convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do
something they didn"t already feel like doing." | |
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Richard David Bach
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| "SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political
influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was
punished by torture and death." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The best politics is right action." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun." | |
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R. Buckminster Fuller
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| "The military don"t start wars. Politicians start wars." | |
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General William C. Westmoreland
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| "The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is
thinking most often and in the loudest voice." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "The problem with political jokes is that they get elected." | |
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Unknown
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| "The problem with political jokes is they get elected." | |
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Henry Cate, VII
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| "The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians
who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all
of the people all of the time." | |
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Franklin Pierce Adams
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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." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the
irrationalities of men." | |
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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| "There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground
of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated
class and the deep places of the imagination." | |
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Lionel Trilling
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| "University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so
small." | |
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Henry Kissinger
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| "We"d all vote for the best man, but he"s never a candidate." | |
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Will Rogers
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| "When you are in any contest,you should work as if there were?to the
very last minute?a chance to lose it. This is battle,This is politics,This
is anything." | |
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General Dwight David Eisenhower
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| "When you"ve spent half your political life dealing with humdrum
issues like the environment... it"s exciting to have a real crisis on your
hands." | |
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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