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Quotations by Subject: Politics
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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
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Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
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Larry Hardiman
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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Lester B. Pearson (1897 - 1972)
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
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Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-18-04
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
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Mark B. Cohen
Politics is the art of the possible.
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Otto Von Bismarck (1815 - 1898), remark, Aug. 11, 1867
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
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Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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R. A. Butler (1902 - 1982)
Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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R. A. Butler (1902 - 1982)
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
Politics is applesauce.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game"
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