Political Quotes - Page 4

• Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

  Grover Cleveland

  Offending, People, Agents

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Ghetto, Cities, Politics

  In Detroit Free Press 19 Oct. 1968

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• We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Inspirational, Freedom, Patriotic

  "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy". "See It Now" on CBS, www.lib.berkeley.edu. March 09, 1954.

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• Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

  Eric Alterman

  Hysteria, Mad, Suffering

  "Who speaks for me?" by Eric Alterman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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• A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Presidential, Tasks, Politics

  State of the Union address to Congress, 4 Jan. 1965, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1965 vol. 1, p. 9

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• I say that justice is truth in action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Truth, Justice, Politics

  'Hansard' 11 February 1851

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• Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Men, Democracy

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Good Life, Happy Life

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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  Never complain and never explain.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Advice, Complaining, Politics

  In J. Morley 'The Life of William Ewart Gladstone' (1903) vol. 1, p. 123.

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• I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Life, Politics, Matter

  Quoted in Clement Attlee, A Prime Minister Remembers (1961) See Briand 2; Clemenceau 4

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• A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

  H. L. Mencken

  Couple, Baptism, Circus

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• A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Politics

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• If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.

  Tony Benn

  Mean, Order, Government

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• Over the last six months, I've seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we'll all be living in one, or the other. But only one. A country where our president either has our back or turns his back; a country that honors our foremothers by moving us forward, or one that forces our generation to re-fight the battles they already won; a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom, or one where that freedom doesn't apply to our bodies and our voices.

  Sandra Fluke

  Country, Freedom, Badass

  Sandra Fluke's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Politics are not the task of a Christian.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Tasks, Politics

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• Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

  Mark Twain

  Patriotic, Fighting, Ink And Paper

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  Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Funny, Witty, Preparation

  Familiar Studies of Men and Books "Yoshida-Torajiro" (1882)

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• Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.

  James B. Weaver

  Powerful, Suffering, Society

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  You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Positivity, Sunshine

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing

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• With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries. What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Country, Honesty, Freedom

  "Democracy, Human Rights and the Realities". Speech in Tokyo, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 1992.

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• Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats.

  Richard J. Daley

  Giving, Worry, Politics

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• You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

  Mario Cuomo

  Poetry, Campaigns, Politics

  The New Republic, April 04, 1985.

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• A friend in power is a friend lost.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 7 (1907)

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• If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  1978 Address to the Future Farmers of America, Kansas City, 9 Nov.

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• There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Issues, Politics, Domain

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