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politics

George Orwell
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George W. Bush
One thing I have learned about the presidency is that whatever shortcomings you have, people are going to notice them -- and whatever strengths you have, you're going to need them.
George Washington
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of
GK Chesterton
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
Golda Meir
Don't be so humble; you are not that great.
Groucho Marx
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
H.G. Wells
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
Henry Kissinger
Diplomacy...the art of restraining power.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Irving Kristol
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Julius Nyerere
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
Margaret Thatcher
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Mark Twain
It could probably be shown, by facts and figures, that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Plato
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Ronald Reagan
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.