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"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."	Groucho Marx
"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume."	Edmund Burke
"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."	Albert Einstein
"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."	Ambrose Bierce
"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."	Ambrose Bierce
"The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win."	Will Rogers
"We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in."	Will Rogers
"Politics is applesauce."	Will Rogers
"Until you've been in politicsyou've never really been aliveit's rough and sometimes it'sdirty and it's always hardwork and tedious detailsBut, it's the only sport for grownups-all othergames are for kids. -Heinlein"	Author Unknown
"I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me-toasted and buttered on both sides."	Jesse Jackson
"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up."	Jesse Jackson
"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."	Margaret Thatcher
"The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club."	Dave Barry
"The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted-because everyone would join that party."	Ronald Reagan
"Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating."	Ronald Reagan
"Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history."	Ronald Reagan
"Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would."	Ronald Reagan
"The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing."	Ronald Reagan
"Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking [and] now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage."	Ronald Reagan
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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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