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"My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial."	Charles De Gaulle
"My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'"	Dexter Scott King
"My only criticism is that I wasn't told everything."	Ronald Reagan
"No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt."	Robert H(eron) Bork
"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."	Jacob Bronowski
"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.'"	John Kenneth Galbraith
"Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation."	Charles De Gaulle
"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."	Margaret Thatcher
"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
"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."	Irving Layton
"One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one."	Henry Miller
"One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark, its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time, one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase - some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse - into the dustbin where it belongs."	George Orwell
"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American."	David Duchovny
"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive."	Mao Zedong
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."	Charles De Gaulle
"People don't start wars, governments do."	Ronald Reagan
"People like me sound like a lot of big cannons."	Mao Zedong
"Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy."	Noam Chomsky
"Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true."	Margaret Thatcher
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