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"Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy."	Irish Blessing
"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook."	Joseph Conrad
"As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have [it] if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection."	Ronald Reagan
"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
"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating."	Ronald Reagan
"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically."	Mao Zedong
"Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form."	Ronald Reagan
"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
"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
"France cannot be France without greatness."	Charles De Gaulle
"Get thee glass eyes; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not."	Mary Bertone
"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
"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."	Claire Huchet Bishop
"He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."	Sir Walter Besant
"History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom."	Milton Friedman
"How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?"	Author Unknown
"How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician."	Henry Miller
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."	Margaret Thatcher
"I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service."	Ronald Reagan
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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
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