954 private quotes tagged politics

“Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“War is the ultimate tool of politics.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.” — Will Rogers

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“Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.” — Will Rogers

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“Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.” — Ronald Reagan

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“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” — Ronald Reagan

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“You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.” — Winston Churchill

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“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.” — Winston Churchill

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“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.” — John F. Kennedy

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“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.” — Mark Twain

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“Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.” — Winston Churchill

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