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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• 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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• 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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• Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

  Benjamin Rush

  Religious, Time, Art

  Misattributed to Benjamin Rush in "Total Health and Restoration: A 180-Day Journey" by Terry Dorian, p. 49, 2002.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech in Washington, D.C., kinginstitute.stanford.edu. March 31, 1968.

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• I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Party, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.410, Cambridge University Press

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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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• 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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• The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

  John Jay Chapman

  Years, Political, Twenties

  John Jay Chapman (1921). “William Lloyd Garrison”

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  The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Trust, Witty

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks

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• I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Giving Up, Hype, President

  "And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker". Book by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham, January 15, 1992.

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