Politics Quotes - Page 11

• Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Responsibility, America, Example

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

  Karl Marx

  Long, Society, Church

  "By Appointment With the Future Queen" by Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. April 28, 2011.

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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

  Political, Presidential, Tasks

  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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• To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

  Edmund Burke

  Love, Wise, Business

  Speech on American Taxation, 19 Apr. 1774

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• Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, White, House

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

  Barbara Bush

  Powerful, Thinking, Political

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• I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

  George H. W. Bush

  Believe, Patriotic, Political

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• He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

  Queen Victoria

  Speak, Politician, Meetings

  In G. W. E. Russell 'Collections and Recollections' (1898) ch. 14

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• Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Political, Lovely, President

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• The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

  Fidel Castro

  Running, People, Nerd

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Party, Mean, Views

  "Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president".

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• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Political, Style, Democracy

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

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• In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

  Mary McCarthy

  Military, Retreat, Politician

  "Vietnam". Book by Mary McCarthy, 1967.

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• We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Strength, Beach

  Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796

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• Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

  Winston Churchill

  Business, Insperational, Games

  Winston Churchill (1973). “Liberalism and the Social Problem”, p.249, Library of Alexandria

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• Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Fun, Men, Political

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• It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Majority, Might, Constitution

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• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Rights, Done, Way

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• I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Serious, Easy

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• The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

  Bill Vaughan

  Political, Vices, Doe

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• For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

  John W. Gardner

  Poverty, Talent, Poor

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.110, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

  Ross Perot

  Country, Sacrifice, Journey

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• Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

  Grover Cleveland

  Women, Long Ago, Civilization

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• When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Anger, Political, Angry

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• There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Believe, Mean

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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