Murray Kempton September 30, 2014 00:00
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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Walter Lippmann September 29, 2014 00:00
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.
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Lyman Bryson September 28, 2014 00:00
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.
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Meg Greenfield September 27, 2014 00:00
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made…
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Robert Byrne September 26, 2014 00:00
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least
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James Harvey Robinson September 25, 2014 00:00
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.
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James Freeman Clarke September 24, 2014 00:00
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
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Winston Churchill September 23, 2014 00:00
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
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John Gardner September 22, 2014 00:00
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
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Mao Zedong September 21, 2014 00:00
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
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William E. Gladstone September 19, 2014 00:00
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
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