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• A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Motivational, Leadership, People

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• Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Gun, Chinese Revolution

  Speech at sixth plenary session of Central Committee, Communist Party, Yan'an, China, 6 Nov. 1938

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• You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Party, Together, World

  "Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches". Book edited by Stephen Marion Reynolds and Bruce Rogers, 1908.

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• No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.

  Maude Barlow

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Priorities

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• In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.

  Billy Graham

  Country, Religious, Focus

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• When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Office, Choke

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• I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.

  Fanny Kemble

  Dirty, Thinking, Hands

  Fanny Kemble (1891). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Humor, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate.

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Strong, Party

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• Let's pass a bill to cover the moon with yogurt that will cost $5 trillion today. And then let's pass a bill the next day to cancel that bill. We could save $5 trillion.

  Paul Ryan

  Moon, Next Day, Cost

  "Gene Sperling Gives White House View of Debt Talks; Rep. McCarthy, Sens. Durbin, Kyl Talk Compromise". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. July 31, 2011.

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• We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. Sometimes one side is up and the other side is down. But there's no sense that they are coming together in a common-sense, practical, nonideological way to solve the problems that we face.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Common Sense, Together

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• I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn into some kind of ogre or demon, I think, is a mistake. I mean, it's like telling the American people or half the American people that don't agree with you they're all fools. That's just not true.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Mean, Thinking

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will certainly fail; and failures to men in power, are like defeats to a general, they shake their popularity. Therefore, since they cannot sail in the teeth of the wind, they must tack, and ultimately gain their object, by appearing at times to be departing from it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Wind, Wish

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.183

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• There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Two, Envy, Revolutionary

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• A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Angel, Men, Thinking

  Mr. Dooley's Philosophy "Casual Observations" (1900)

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  We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

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• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Power, Politics, Corruption

  1971 In The Listener.

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• Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

  Thomas Sowell

  Usa, America, Voting

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Party, Technology, Politics

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• I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

  Barry Goldwater

  Politics, Today, Would Be

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• Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Veterans Day, Military

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

  Oscar Wilde

  Money, Clever, Stupid

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Governments never learn. Only people learn.

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Government, People

  "The Cynic's Lexicon: A Dictionary Of Amoral Advice‎". Book by Jonathon Green, 1984.

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  We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, Country, Power

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