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- Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
- Ernest Benn
- Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
- Lester B. Pearson (1897 - 1972)
- Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
- Harry Shearer
- We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
- Buck Henry
- Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
- Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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