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We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
Martin L. Gross
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.
Albert Camus
If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action
Bertrand Russell
I don't compromise my principles for politics.
Chris Christie
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Robertson Davies
I am under the impression that in nine out of ten cases I deal with windbags who do not fully realize what they take upon themselves, but who intoxicate themselves with romantic sensations. From a human point of view this is not very interesting to me, nor does it move me profoundly. However, it is immensely moving when a mature man
Max Weber, Politics as a Vocatio
The only way you can do that Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.
John B. Anderson
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Frank Moore Colby, 1926
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
Jacqueline KennedyOnassis
The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.
Barres
Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.
Aldous Huxley
People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.
George Bush
Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.
Desiderius Erasmus
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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.
Woodrow Wilson
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher
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 for fifteen years.
Harry S Truman
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.
