Politics Quotes - Page 14

• A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Political, Healthy, Society

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• I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.

  Pablo Picasso

  Shoes, Special, Hammers

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• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Art, Attitude, Political

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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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• In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Politician, Absurdity

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• Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.

  Will Rogers

  Sports, Offering, Matter

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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

  Political, Ems, Tricks

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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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• 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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• Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Political, Lovely, President

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• I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.

  Will Rogers

  Believe, Winning, Years

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• The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

  Will Rogers

  Waiting, President, Want

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• 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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• I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Witty, Freedom

  Quoted in Wall Street Journal, 26 May 1989

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• If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Respect, Law, Desire

  "A Treasury of Jewish Quotations". Book by Joseph L. Baron, 1996.

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• Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

  Paul Wellstone

  Imagine, Predictions, Dare

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• A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Patriotic, Rights, Government

  Letter to James Madison, 20 Dec. 1787

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• The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Government, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.8, Modern Library

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• In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

  Jean Rostand

  Lying, Yesterday, Today

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Patriotic, Issues

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• When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, War, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Government, Political

  Letter to Archibald Stewart, 23 Dec. 1791

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