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"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American."	David Duchovny
"My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'"	Dexter Scott King
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."	Doug Larson
"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."	Dr. Arbthnot
"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
"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
"Politics when I am in it, makes me sick."	Edward de Bono
"In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger."	Edward Morgan Forster
"The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him."	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
"The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved."	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
"Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Remember to lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president. Be sure not to get too fat, because you'll have to sit three in the back seat."	Eleanor Roosevelt
"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
"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation."	Eubie
"Saying we should keep the two-party [political] system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts."	Eugene J. McCarthy
"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
"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
"In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home."	Francois Arouet
"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time."	Franklin P. Adams
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."	General Charles De Gaulle
"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."	General Charles De Gaulle
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