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"All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field."	Albert Einstein
"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."	Albert Einstein
"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."	Albert Einstein
"The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election."	Gerald R. Ford
"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
"History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom."	Milton Friedman
"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."	Richard Buckminster Fuller
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."	John Kenneth Galbraith
"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.'"	John Kenneth Galbraith
"All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake."	Indira Nehru Gandhi
"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics."	Newt Gingrich
"Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management."	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
"What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."	John B. Gough
"I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue."	Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr.
"Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice."	Richard Harris
"In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme."	Roy Hattersley
"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?"	Gilbert Highet
"A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind."	Richard Hofstadter
"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself."	Herbert Clark Hoover
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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
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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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