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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. |
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- John le Carre
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In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart. |
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- Henry Clay
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In Louisiana we don't bet on football games ... We bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not. |
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- Mark Duffy
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In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant. |
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- Charles De Gaulle
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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. |
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- Irving Layton
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In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home. |
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- Francois Arouet
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. |
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- Charles De Gaulle
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap. |
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- Napoleon Bonaparte
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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. |
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- Roy Hattersley
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In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. |
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- Mark Twain
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