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• Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error of plus or minus the facts.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Business, Errors

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• Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

  Emma Goldman

  World, Politician, Reflexes

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.180, University of Illinois Press

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• Politics have no relation to morals.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Political, Nerd, Moral

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• There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ocean, Sea, Purpose

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1917). “Method and Results: Essays”

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• The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Wisdom, Opportunity

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• Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

  Ronald Reagan

  Courage, War, Patriotic

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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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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• The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Sea, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Success, Hell

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

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• There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

  Will Rogers

  Political Will, Jail, Independence

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.149, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Aquariums, Essentials, Ingredients

  "The Rainmaker : A Passion for Politics" by Keith Davey, (p. 57), 1986.

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• History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sad, Wisdom, Bad Relationship

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

  Gore Vidal

  Issues, Political, Historical

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 03, 2011

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• Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Trust, Country, Witty

  "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War that is Destroying America". Book by Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel, 2007.

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• Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Progress Of Society, Political, Lines

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.97, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Patriotic, Independent

  Adlai E. Stevenson's speech in Detroit, Michigan, October 7, 1952.

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• From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

  N. T. Wright

  Two, America, Issues

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• You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

  Barack Obama

  Change, America, Usa

  "Obama: 'You can't change Washington from the inside'". www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Life, Reality, Political

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• It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Money, Nice

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jul 09, 2012

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• The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

  Jonathan Swift

  Greatness, Men, Two

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.520

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• If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Glowing, Cities, Would Be

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People, Earning

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.212, Princeton University Press

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• Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

  Henri Queuille

  Funny, Art, Decision

  The Bureaucrat Magazine, 1985.

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• An informed patriotism is what we want.

  Ronald Reagan

  Want

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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