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"He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career." Sir Walter Besant 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians." Claire Huchet Bishop 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 3.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation." Eubie 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy." Irish Blessing 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom." Jean Bodin 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"In politics stupidity is not a handicap." Napolean Bonaparte 4.4375 average rating Rate this Quote
"Politics when I am in it, makes me sick." Edward de Bono Rate this Quote
"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 Rate this Quote
"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 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"[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 Rate this Quote
"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 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity." Vera Brittaiin 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"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 Rate this Quote
"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 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power." Jacob Bronowski Rate this Quote
"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. 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics." Charles Bukowski 4.6875 average rating Rate this Quote
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Ivern Ball Jacob Bronowski James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
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Noam Chomsky Oscar Ameringer Peggy Noonan
Peter Kropotkin Ralph Waldo Emerson Randolph Silliman Bourne
Richard Lamm Richard Buckminster Fuller Richard Harris
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Robert H(eron) Bork Ronald Reagan Roy Hattersley
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