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"As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have [it] if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection."	Ronald Reagan
"The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship."	Marcel Achard
"The politician is an acrobat; he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says."	Maurice Barrès
"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"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
"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
"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
"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
"My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'"	Dexter Scott King
"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces."	Maureen Murphy
"The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved."	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."	Margaret Thatcher
"This administration is totally colorblind."	Ronald Reagan
"[We seek] a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place."	Ronald Reagan
"[Qaddafi] counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong."	Ronald Reagan
"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency."	Theodore Roosevelt
"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 like me sound like a lot of big cannons."	Mao Zedong
"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
"Saying we should keep the two-party [political] system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts."	Eugene J. McCarthy
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