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"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation."	Eubie
"Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy."	Irish Blessing
"It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents."	General Omar Nelson Bradley
"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity."	Vera Brittaiin
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."	Fawn M. Brodie
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."	General Charles De Gaulle
"In Louisiana we don't bet on football games ... We bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not."	Mark Duffy
"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.'"	John Kenneth Galbraith
"What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."	John B. Gough
"The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position."	Hubert H. Humphrey
"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it."	Charles Krauthammer
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."	Doug Larson
"Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies."	Walter J. Lippmann
"Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."	Lord Macaulay
"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be."	Herbert "Marshall" McLuhan
"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
"A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground."	Henry Louis Mencken
"A politician is a person who thinks twice before he says nothing."	Joe Moore
"Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen."	Peggy Noonan
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F. F. Bosworth	General Charles De Gaulle	General Omar Nelson Bradley
George Orwell	George Herbert Walker Bush	Gerald R. Ford
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Irish Blessing	Irving Layton	Isaac Asimov
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Jean Bodin	Jesse Jackson	Joe Moore
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John le Carre	Joseph Brodsky	Joseph Conrad
Julius Henry Marx	Lester R(obert) Bittel	Lord Macaulay
Lucille Ball	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mao Zedong
Marcel Achard	Marco A. Almazan	Margaret Thatcher
Mark Duffy	Mary Bertone	Mary Catherine Bateson
Maureen Murphy	Maurice Barrès	Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	Milton Friedman	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Napolean Bonaparte	Newt Gingrich	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
Noam Chomsky	Oscar Ameringer	Peggy Noonan
Peter Kropotkin	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Randolph Silliman Bourne
Richard Lamm	Richard Buckminster Fuller	Richard Harris
Richard Hofstadter	Richard Ingrams	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert H(eron) Bork	Ronald Reagan	Roy Hattersley
Russell Wayne Baker	Saul David Alinsky	Simon Cameron
Sir Walter Besant	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Theodore Roosevelt
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno	Thomas Jefferson	Vera Brittaiin
Walter Frederick Mondale	Walter J. Lippmann	Will Rogers
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