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"He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."	Sir Walter Besant
"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."	Claire Huchet Bishop
"Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons."	Lester R(obert) Bittel
"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
"The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom."	Jean Bodin
"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."	Napolean Bonaparte
"Politics when I am in it, makes me sick."	Edward de Bono
"No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt."	Robert H(eron) Bork
"It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled."	F. F. Bosworth
"Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow."	Elias Boudinot
"[About the rhinoceros:] Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste."	Randolph Silliman Bourne
"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 do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change-within himself, not on the outside."	Joseph Brodsky
"For aesthetics is the mother of ethics…. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens."	Joseph Brodsky
"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."	Jacob Bronowski
"I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth."	William Frank Buckley, Jr.
"You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."	Charles Bukowski
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Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine	Ambrose Bierce	Anthony J. D'Angelo
Aristotle	Arthur C(harles) Clarke	Author Unknown
Barbara Bush	Charles De Gaulle	Charles Bukowski
Charles Krauthammer	Charles Kuralt	Claire Huchet Bishop
Colin Campbell	Dave Barry	David Duchovny
Dexter Scott King	Doug Larson	Dr. Arbthnot
Edmund Burke	Edward C. Banfield	Edward de Bono
Edward Morgan Forster	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow	Eleanor Roosevelt
Elias Boudinot	Eubie	Eugene J. McCarthy
Fawn M. Brodie	Francois Arouet	Franklin P. Adams
F. F. Bosworth	General Charles De Gaulle	General Omar Nelson Bradley
George Orwell	George Herbert Walker Bush	Gerald R. Ford
Gilbert Highet	Gloria Steinem	Groucho Marx
Henry Alfred Kissinger	Henry Brooks Adams	Henry Cate, VII
Henry Louis Mencken	Henry Miller	Henry Steele Commager
Herbert Samuel	Herbert Clark Hoover	Herbert "Marshall" McLuhan
Hubert H. Humphrey	Indira Gandhi	Indira Nehru Gandhi
Irish Blessing	Irving Layton	Isaac Asimov
Ivern Ball	Jacob Bronowski	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
Jean Bodin	Jesse Jackson	Joe Moore
John B. Gough	John George Diefenbaker	John Kenneth Galbraith
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
William Frank Buckley, Jr.