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"Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never."	Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
"Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice."	Richard Harris
"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his."	Ronald Reagan
"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15."	Ronald Reagan
"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
"Roosevelt, a false witness; Truman, a merchant; Eisenhower, I am told that on the golf links he is better [with a putter] than he is with the long shots and that doesn't surprise me; Kennedy, the style of a hairdresser's assistant-he combed his way through problems; Johnson, a truck driver or a stevedore-or a legionnaire."	Charles De Gaulle
"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
"Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother."	Ronald Reagan
"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him."	General Charles De Gaulle
"Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking [and] now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage."	Ronald Reagan
"Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth."	Ronald Reagan
"Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."	Ronald Reagan
"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
"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
"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
"The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship."	Marcel Achard
"The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win."	Will Rogers
"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."	Charles De Gaulle
"The Christian Right is neither."	Author Unknown
"The current tax code is a daily mugging."	Ronald Reagan
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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
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