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«One does not fight corruption by fighting corruption.»
«No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.»
Author: Henry Fountain Ashurst | About: Politics | Keywords: fit to, senator
«Now that he has changed the weather, Lion and lamb can vote together. God bless the Russian delegation, I waive consecutive translation.»
«Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham | About: Decision, Injustice, Politics | Keywords: deadly, quite a
«One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson (President) | About: Golf, Politics | Keywords: the President
«One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.»
«No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.»
Author: Richard J. Daley (Mayor) | About: Politics | Keywords: Day to Day, visits
«Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party?s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.»
«Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Politics
«Only Napoleon did more than me. But I'm taller than him.»
Author: Silvio Berlusconi | About: Jokes, Politics