Politics Quotes - Page 26

• Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Change

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

  Mark B. Cohen

  Winning, Political, Voters

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• Politics is largely a matter of heart.

  Rab Butler

  Heart, Political, Matter

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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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• 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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• 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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• There are no true friends in politics.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  True Friend, No True Friends

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• [T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Athlete, Thinking, Media

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• Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Principles, Motto, Expediency

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2764, Delphi Classics

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• Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

  Orson Welles

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

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• I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Politician, Found

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  The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Objectivity, Media

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Simple, Answers

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, NewsMax Media, Inc.

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• An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Government, Political

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

  "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.

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• It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Giving, Important

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• Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

  Robert Breault

  Lying, Stealing, Politician

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• The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Art, Knowing, Political

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• Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Native American, People, Choices

  "The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment".

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• Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

  Bernard Baruch

  Disappointment, Freedom, Keeping Promises

  In Meyer Berger New York (1960)

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• Politics is not an exact science.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, Political, Exact Sciences

  Expression in the Reichstag in 1884, "The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When". Book by Ralph Keyes, 2006.

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• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  Edmund Burke

  Mind, Together, Littles

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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