Political Quotes - Page 17

• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  In Saturday Review 25 Aug. 1962

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• I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

  William J. Clinton

  Food, Mcdonalds, Hype

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• Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Preparation, Progress, Politics

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

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• The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Simple, Accountability, Politics

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• In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Office, Important, Politics

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• No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.

  Richard J. Daley

  Party, Men, Politics

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• For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Peace, Business, War

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• A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

  Carl Sandburg

  Talking, Should Have, Rabbits

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• The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

  Henry Ford

  Country, People, Doing Good

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

  Larry Flynt

  Sheep, Rights, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.

  Vance Packard

  Two, Intellectual, Trying

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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

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Government

  P J O'Rourke (1992). “Parliament of Whores-Open Mark”, Vintage Books USA

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• I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Party, Political Will

  "Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Patrick Joseph O'Brien. Chapter 9, 1935.

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• There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Inspiration

  Daily Telegram number 2678 on March 06, 1935. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Funny, Basketball, Mean

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• I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

  John Adams

  Children, Fate, Giving

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.616

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• Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

  Art Buchwald

  Talking, Television, Politics

  Art Buchwald (1978). “Washington is leaking”, Fawcett Books

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• All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Cottages, Safe, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.11, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

  Harry S. Truman

  Ems, Politics, Tricks

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• Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Latin, Economic Models

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• Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

  Barack Obama

  Sports, Election, Contact

  "The Candidate: How the son of a Kenyan economist became an Illinois Everyman". www.newyorker.com. May 31, 2004.

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• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Farewell, Responsibility

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, War

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

  Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.

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