Politics
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"He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin, whether a state or anything else, will obtain the clearest view of them."
"Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion."
"All power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."
"The shifty language of politics,... that strange language full of Maya and falsities of self-illusion and deliberate delusion of others, which almost immediately turns all true and vivid phrases into a jargon, so that men may fight in a cloud of words without any clear sense of the thing they are battling for...."
"POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."
"POLITICS, n. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
"PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics."
"Political technology determines political success."
"Sound doctrine is sound politics."
"In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead."
"In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy."
"In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed."
"Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics."
"Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?"
"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."
"The pendulum will swing back."
"We shouldn’t be playing politics. We should be focusing on what’s important."
"A lifetime spent in and out of embassies has left me half convinced that lies are the normal coinage of human intercourse."
"Lucien B. Fenimore, after three hundred years of politics, no longer believed in coincidence. He didn’t believe in accidental accidents either."
"In my whole legal career I have not met worse types of criminals than in politics."
"Finality is not the language of politics."
"Politicians are like nappies, they should be changed regularly and for the same reason."
"The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical."
"Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen."