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Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
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David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1946
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.
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Billy Connolly on ABC's "Head Of the Class"
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
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Dalton Camp
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
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James Madison (1751 - 1836), (attributed)
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
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Alain van der Heide
People ask me if I've ever been called a Nazi. I answer that no one has ever had dreams of being tied down and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal.
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P.J. O'Rourke
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
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Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953)
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