Barney Frank on Politics

"But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency."

-- Barney Frank, United States Congressman.
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Henri Queuille on Politics

"Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant."

-- Henri Queuille, French politician.
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John Major on Politics

"The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare."

-- John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower on Politics

"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States.
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Edmund S. Muskie on Politics

"You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so."

-- Edmund S. Muskie, United States Secretary of State
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan on Politics

"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself."

-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, United States Senator.
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Socrates on Politics

"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."

-- Socrates, philosopher.
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Robert Byrd on Politics

"It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics."

-- Robert Byrd, United States Senator.
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Friedrich August von Hayek

"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers."

-- Friedrich August von Hayek, Austrian philosopher.
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Orrin Hatch on Politics

"Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional rights in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture."

-- Orrin Hatch, United States Senator.
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Larry Elder on Politics

"Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut."

-- Larry Elder, American entertainer.
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America First Party

"We pledge ourselves to restore and revitalize the great American Experiment for the benefit of our nation and all its people. We commit ourselves to elect honest people to public office who adhere to principles based on the wisdom of the Founders and expressed in the United States Constitution and our party platform."

-- America First Party.
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Earl Warren on Politics

"Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism."

-- Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States.
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Ann Coulter on Politics

"Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror."

-- Ann Coulter, American author.
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Daniel P. Moynihan on Politics

"Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire."

-- Daniel P. Moynihan, United States Senator.
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James Madison

"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations."

-- James Madison, President of the United States.
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Mark Shields on Politics

"The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work."

-- Mark Shields, American commentator.
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Albert Einstein on Politics

"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."

-- Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist.
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Charles Krauthammer on Politics

"Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”

-- Charles Krauthammer, American author.
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William Lyon Mackenzie King on Politics

"It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government."

-- William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian journalist and politician.
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Harold Wilson on Politics

"One man's wage increase is another man's price increase."

-- Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Mitt Romney on Politics

"The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government."

-- Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts.
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James L. Buckley on Politics

"Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls."

-- James L. Buckley, United States Senator.
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Simon Cameron on Politics

"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."

-- Simon Cameron, United States Senator.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas on Politics

"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."

-- Saint Thomas Aquinas, philosopher.
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Gerrit Smith on Politics

"I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government."

-- Gerrit Smith, American politician.
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Joseph Stalin on Politics

"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."

-- Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of USSR Communist Party.
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Elizabeth Drew on Politics

"Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits."

-- Elizabeth Drew, American author.
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Eleanor Clift on Politics

"People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician."

-- Eleanor Clift, American author.
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Mikhail Gorbachev on Politics

"It would be naïve to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past."

-- Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the USSR.
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John Breaux on Politics

"I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part."

-- John Breaux, United States senator.
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