Indira Gandhi on Politics

"People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights."

-- Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India.
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John Adams on Politics

"Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."

-- John Adams, President of the United States.
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Lech Walesa on Politics

"The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now."

-- Lech Walesa, Polish trade union and human rights activist.
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Zach Wamp on Politics

"In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him."

-- Zach Wamp, United States Congressman.
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Theodore Roosevelt on Politics

"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."

-- Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States.
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Hillary Clinton on Politics

"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."

-- Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State.
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Geoff Davis on Politics

"Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C."

-- Geoff Davis, United States Congressman.
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Richard Reeves on Politics

"A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents."

-- Richard Reeves, American author.
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William Proxmire on Politics

"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."

-- William Proxmire, United States Senator.
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Bill Owens on Politics

"Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality."

-- Bill Owens, Governor of Colorado.
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John Podhoretz on Politics

"Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing."

-- John Podhoretz, American author.
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Herbert Hoover on Politics

"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man."

-- Herbert Hoover, President of the United States.
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Paul Begala on Politics

"Politics is show business for ugly people."

-- Paul Begala, American political consultant.
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Workers World Party on Politics

"Our party fights for a socialist society—where the wealth is socially owned and production is planned to satisfy human need. We promote international working-class solidarity, the right of every nation to sovereignty and self-determination, and militant resistance at home to imperialist interventions and wars." -- Workers World party.
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Reflections on Politics

"What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small."

-- Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice President of the United States.
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David Ben-Gurion on Politics

“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared”

-- David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel.
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Craig Washington on Politics

"I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag."

-- Craig Washington, United States Congressman.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower on Politics

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States.
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Margaret Thatcher on Politics

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

-- Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Lord Hailsham on Politics

"The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion."

-- Lord Hailsham, British politician.
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Eleanor Roosevelt on Politics

"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States.
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Bob Inglis on Politics

"We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants."

-- Bob Inglis, United States Congressman.
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Alec Douglas-Home on Politics

"There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible."

-- Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Pat Oliphant on Politics

"I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows."

-- Pat Oliphant, American cartoonist.
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George Nethercutt on Politics

"If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place."

-- George Nethercutt, United States Congressman.
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Gerry Adams on Politics

"It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo."

-- Gerry Adams, Irish politician.
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Alfred E. Smith on Politics

"The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine."

-- Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York.
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Rutherford B. Hayes on Politics

"I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct)."

-- Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States.
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Al Sharpton on Politics

"If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?"

-- Al Sharpton, American social activist.
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Mohandas Gandhi on Politics

"A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion."

-- Mohandas Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of India.
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Jimmy Carter on Politics

"We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war."

-- Jimmy Carter, President of the United States.
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