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"The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship." Marcel Achard 4.5000 average rating  
"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time." Franklin P. Adams 3.6000 average rating  
"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts." Henry Brooks Adams 3.7500 average rating  
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds." Henry Brooks Adams 3.4167 average rating  
"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning." Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno 4.3000 average rating  
"Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life." Saul David Alinsky 4.2000 average rating  
"The truly skillful politician is one who, when he comes to a fork in the road, goes both ways." Marco A. Almazan 4.8750 average rating  
"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other." Oscar Ameringer 4.7727 average rating  
"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies." Dr. Arbthnot 4.7778 average rating  
"Man is by nature a political animal." Aristotle 4.3500 average rating  
"In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home." Francois Arouet 4.5000 average rating  
"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments." Isaac Asimov 4.6429 average rating  
"A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday." Russell Wayne Baker 2.3333 average rating  
"The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle." Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin 4.5714 average rating  
"A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship." Ivern Ball 4.6667 average rating  
"Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage." Lucille Ball 4.9500 average rating  
"Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society." Edward C. Banfield 3.6667 average rating  
"The politician is an acrobat; he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says." Maurice Barrès 3.7500 average rating  
"The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful." Mary Catherine Bateson 3.5000 average rating  
"Get thee glass eyes; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not." Mary Bertone 4.8000 average rating  
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