Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
- John Quincy Adams
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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
- Henry B. Adams
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Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
- Spiro T. Agnew
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The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
- Dante Alighieri
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The secret of getting things done is to act!
- Dante Alighieri
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
- Aristotle
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
- Richard Armour
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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
- Russell Baker
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So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
- Roger Baldwin
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
- Marion Barry
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What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
- Marion Barry
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
- Bernard Baruch
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The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge) Broke - and Democracy resumed her reign: (Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne).
- Hilaire Belloc
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Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.
- Saul Bellow
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
- Leonard Bernstein
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Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most nonallied.
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
- Ambrose Bierce
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.
- Tom Bradley
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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
- Louis D. Brandeis
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- Edmund Burke
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Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne
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Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
- Jimmy Carter
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
- Fidel Castro
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
- Fidel Castro
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
- Paddy Chayefsky
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
- Jacques Chirac
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
- Winston Churchill
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We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.
- Frank A. Clark
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I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
- John Cleese
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Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
- Grover Cleveland
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
- Clarence Darrow
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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
- Robertson Davies
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I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.
- John G. Diefenbaker
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The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
- John G. Diefenbaker
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A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
- Everett McKinley Dirksen
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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
- William O. Douglas
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The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
- John Foster Dulles
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Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.
- Roger Ebert
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The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
- Albert Einstein
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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
- Albert Einstein
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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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.
- T. S. Eliot
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words.
- Esther B. Fein
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I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.
- Geraldine A. Ferraro
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
- W. C. Fields
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
- Milton Friedman
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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
- Erich Fromm
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
- James William Fulbright
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Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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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.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- 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.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mohandas Gandhi
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When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
- John W. Gardner
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
- John W. Gardner
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
- Charles De Gaulle
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
- Charles De Gaulle
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What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
- Kahlil Gibran
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
- Kahlil Gibran
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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
- William Gilbert
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
- Newt Gingrich
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
- William Ewart Gladstone
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An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
- Arnold H. Glasow
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If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
- Emma Goldman
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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
- Emma Goldman
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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.
- 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.
- Meg Greenfield
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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
- Dick Gregory
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We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
- Martin L. Gross
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
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Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"
- Larry Hardiman
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There is always some fig leaf being used.
- Gary Hart
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
- Gary Hart
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What luck for rulers, that men do not think.
- Adolf Hitler
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Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
- Thomas Hobbes
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Justice is incidental to law and order.
- J. Edgar Hoover
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The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
- Herbert Hoover
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
- J. Edgar Hoover
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We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
- Frank McKinney Hubbard
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
- Pope John Paul II
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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
- Jesse Jackson
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- Thomas Jefferson
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
- Lady Bird Johnson
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It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.
- Charles McC Mathias, Jr.
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I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.
- Charles McC Mathias, Jr.
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My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
- John F. Kennedy
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Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
- Robert Kennedy
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Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
- Edward Kennedy
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
- Nikita Khrushchev
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I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- Henry A. Kissinger
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.
- Edward Koch
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
- Edward Koch
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
- Edward Koch
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
- Edward Koch
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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
- Charles Krauthammer
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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
- Doug Larson
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
- Oscar Levant
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
- 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.
- Clare Boothe Luce
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The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
- 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.
- Neal Barnard, M.D.
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying 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.
- Thomas B. Macaulay
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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
- George MacDonald
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You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
- Harold MacMillan
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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
- Nelson Mandela
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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
- Imelda Marcos
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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
- Thurgood Marshall
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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.
- H. L. Mencken
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Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed, and are right.
- H. L. Mencken
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
- H. L. Mencken
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
- John Stuart Mill
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The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill
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A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.
- Dennis Miller
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
- Maureen Murphy
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
- Ralph Nader
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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- George Jean Nathan
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My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
- Sandra Day O'Connor
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
- Sandra Day O'Connor
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It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
- Sandra Day O'Connor
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We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.
- Sandra Day O'Connor
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Political theory provides a common language with which people in this town communicate with each other.
- Kirk O'Donnell
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You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
- Thomas P. O'Neill
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
- Robert Orben
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
- Ross Perot
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
- Albert Pike
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Plato
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
- Plato
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What you guys want, I'm for.
- Dan Quayle
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
- Dan Quayle
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
- Dan Quayle
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We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.
- Dan Quayle
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I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.
- Dan Quayle
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The future will be better tomorrow.
- Dan Quayle
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The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
- Dan Quayle
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I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
- Dan Quayle
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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
- Dan Quayle
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
- Dan Quayle
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
- Dan Quayle
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
- Dan Quayle
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When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
- Dan Quayle
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
- Dan Quayle
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Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
- Dan Quayle
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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
- Dan Quayle
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
- Dan Quayle
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
- Dan Quayle
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I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
- Dan Quayle
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
- Dan Quayle
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
- Dan Quayle
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I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.
- Dan Quayle
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Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler... I'm Doctor Spin.
- Dan Quayle
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
- Dan Quayle
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
- Dan Quayle
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We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
- Dan Quayle
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This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
- Dan Quayle
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
- Dan Quayle
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
- Dan Quayle
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The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
- Dan Quayle
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
- Dan Quayle
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I happen to be a Republican president - ah, the vice president.
- Dan Quayle
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I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
- Dan Quayle
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The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
- Dan Quayle
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In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!
- Dan Quayle
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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
- Dan Quayle
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
- Dan Quayle
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
- Dan Quayle
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
- Dan Quayle
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I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
- Dan Quayle
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I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
- Dan Quayle
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You have a part-time job and that's better than no job at all.
- Dan Quayle
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I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
- Dan Quayle
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This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.
- Dan Quayle
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We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
- Dan Quayle
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
- Ronald Reagan
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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
- Hyman Rickover
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Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.
- James Harvey Robinson
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
- Will Rogers
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
- Will Rogers
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
- Leo Rosten
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I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
- Gerhard Schroeder
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The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to them as much as to the people of the state where the lands are located.
- John F. Seiberling
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
- William Sherman
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Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
- William E. Simon
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It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
- Joseph Stalin
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
- Gertrude Stein
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
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A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
- Oliver Stone
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In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
- Margaret Thatcher
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
- Margaret Thatcher
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
- Harry S. Truman
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He loved politicians - even Republicans.
- Margaret Truman
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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
- Harry S. Truman
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Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Mao Tse-Tung
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
- Stewart L. Udall
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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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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
- Bill Vaughan
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
- Gore Vidal
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
- Gore Vidal
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- Gore Vidal
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After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
- George C. Wallace
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I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.
- George C. Wallace
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Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
- George C. Wallace
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I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.
- Andy Warhol
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This is an era of violent peace.
- James D. Watkins
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
- Daniel Webster
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
- E. B. White
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The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
- Theodore H. White
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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
- George Will
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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
- George Will
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The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.
- George Will
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
- Woodrow Wilson
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There are no more liberals They've all been mugged.
- James Q. Wilson
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A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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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.
- Deng Xiaoping
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