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| A leader has to lead, or otherwise he has no business in politics. |
| Harry S Truman |
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| A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. |
| Harry S Truman |
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| A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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| A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. |
| David Lloyd George |
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| A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections. |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
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| All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons |
| Ernest Hemingway |
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| All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence. |
| Otto von Bismarck |
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| ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record. |
| Ambrose Bierce |
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| Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. |
| Eugene J. McCarthy |
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| Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. |
| Aristotle |
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| Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. |
| Laurence J. Peter |
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| Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. |
| Robert Byrne |
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| Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. |
| Oscar Wilde |
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