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Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You shoul...

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The artist and the politician stand at opposite poles. The artist enhances life by his prolonged con...

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If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved.

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

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Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land

He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, characteristic of the best type...

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A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

There must be a lot of duplication in our country’s laws," said Dukhi. "Every time there are electio...

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I made up three lists: Candidate's Accomplishments (real and imaginary), Accusations Against Opponen...

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He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia get...

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We've got to stand with our North Korean allies.

Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician.

Don't think I know you," Harold said, grinning, as they shook. He had a firm grip. Larry's hand was ...

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Never give a good politician time to pray.

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with a...

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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors ...

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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic red...

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LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken ...

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The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other...

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...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of eac...

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Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and ...

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You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than mon...

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It is of the essence of any party to gain its orientation not from truths but from illusions which u...

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More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundow...

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I'm not a member of any organized party I'm a Democrat.

A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that wo...

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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to ...

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No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convin...

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Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of a...

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Aldous HuxleyBrave New World Revisited

Waiting in the reception area, she had flicked through a news magazine that had been lying on the ta...

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Mr Mandela, who had given his whole life for justice and had never once thought of himself. How unli...

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Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and...

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We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were ...

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... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can...

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United Nations needs reform to connect with world community beyond the boundary of high-level bureau...

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Wc What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. ... Being in...

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Under every stone lurks a politician.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only prais...

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You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thor...

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[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrai...

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In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequa...

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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve...

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Bertrand RussellNew Hopes for a Changing World

The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to...

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The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile...

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The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, an...

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Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I’ll be damned if Rick Perry didn’t take me...

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NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has ...

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The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one.”"Don't vote. It just e...

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Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane...

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Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faint...

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Christopher HitchensThe Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other pe...

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The Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

As a result, amongst working-class Americans, government is now generally seen as being made up of t...

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A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree if you agree with him he is a statesm...

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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six tim...

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Silly,' he said with mock serenity, 'isn't a word you should ever apply to people. They may be total...

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a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man

a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a stat...

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Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays instead of se...

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In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or pow...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.

Whin a man gets to be my age he ducks political meetin's an' reads th' papers an' weighs th' ivide...

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[John Edwards] is the man that Rielle Hunter called 'real and authentic,' which tells us all we need...

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Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that han...

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A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, whe...

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He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy withwhich we all begin as chi...

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George Bernard ShawThe Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism

I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. Whatever goes upo...

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Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence t...

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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualifi...

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Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiterac...

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It doesn't take ten years of study, you don't need to go to the University, to find out that this is...

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It was his first definite encounter with the wary-eyed, platitudinous, evasive Labour leaders, and h...

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He came away with an exasperated sense of failure. He denounced parliamentary government root and br...

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You English," said Steenhold."You Americans," said Rud."When you aren't as fresh as paint," he said,...

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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of co...

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One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dub...

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H. L. MenckenA Mencken Chrestomathy

People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent

the country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before ...

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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists a...

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Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

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Henry David ThoreauSlavery in Massachusetts

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded th...

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I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for t...

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A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted a...

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