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| So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner. | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism. | | Winston Churchill | |
| Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken | | Woodrow T. Wilson | |
| The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking. | | Will Rogers | |
| The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government | | George Washington | |
| The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. | | Will Rogers | |
| 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. | | Will Rogers | |
| The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed. | | Charles de Gaulle | |
| The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning | | Samuel Johnson | |
| The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. | | Albert Einstein | |
| The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet | | Mark Twain | |
| The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. | | Will Durant | |
| The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against politica | | John Stuart Mill | |
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| Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. | | Plato | |
| Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. | | Mahatma Gandhi | |
