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"You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."	Joe Moore
"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
"The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place."	John George Diefenbaker
"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
"If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing."	John le Carre
"I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change-within himself, not on the outside."	Joseph Brodsky
"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
"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook."	Joseph Conrad
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."	Julius Henry Marx
"Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons."	Lester R(obert) Bittel
"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
"Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."	Lucille Ball
"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
"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive."	Mao Zedong
"Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly."	Mao Zedong
"Let a hundred flowers bloom."	Mao Zedong
"All reactionaries are paper tigers."	Mao Zedong
"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically."	Mao Zedong
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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
Russell Wayne Baker	Saul David Alinsky	Simon Cameron
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