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"He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."	Sir Walter Besant
"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."	Claire Huchet Bishop
"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."	Albert Einstein
"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
"You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."	Charles Bukowski
"A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship."	Ivern Ball
"The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom."	Jean Bodin
"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
"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
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."	Julius Henry Marx
"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt."	Jesse Jackson
"History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom."	Milton Friedman
"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other."	Oscar Ameringer
"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."	Dr. Arbthnot
"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."	Isaac Asimov
"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
"In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home."	Francois Arouet
"You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"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
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Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine	Ambrose Bierce	Anthony J. D'Angelo
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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