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- Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)
- It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
- Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 - 1969)
- A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
- Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977)
- A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
- German Proverb
- A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
- Unknown
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 30
- A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), (attributed)
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