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"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."	Irving Layton
"In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home."	Francois Arouet
"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."	General Charles De Gaulle
"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."	Napolean Bonaparte
"In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme."	Roy Hattersley
"Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis."	Colin Campbell
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."	Doug Larson
"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
"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
"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
"It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality."	Henry Steele Commager
"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."	Albert Einstein
"It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents."	General Omar Nelson Bradley
"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
"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
"Let a hundred flowers bloom."	Mao Zedong
"Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life."	Saul David Alinsky
"Man is by nature a political animal."	Aristotle
"Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."	Lord Macaulay
"Most [tax revisions] didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself: complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers."	Ronald Reagan
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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
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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
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