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"It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man."	Herbert Clark Hoover
"The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position."	Hubert H. Humphrey
"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians."	Richard Ingrams
"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."	Thomas Jefferson
"I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
"My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'"	Dexter Scott King
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."	Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it."	Charles Krauthammer
"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society."	Peter Kropotkin
"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."	Charles Kuralt
"Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never."	Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
"Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave."	Richard Lamm
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."	Doug Larson
"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."	Irving Layton
"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."	Irving Layton
"Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies."	Walter J. Lippmann
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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
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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
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