Friday, April 30, 2010

Bobby Scott on Politics

"We can continue our progress as a nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our nation will treat every person in that spirit."

-- Bobby Scott, United States Congressman.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Saddam Hussein on Politics

"Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended."

-- Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

James Monroe on Politics

"Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete."

-- James Monroe, President of the United States.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Kenneth Kaunda on Politics

"The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence."

-- Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia.
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Monday, April 26, 2010

David Hume on Politics

"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."

-- David Hume, Scottish philosopher.
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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Richard M. Daley on Politics

"Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?"

-- Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago.
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Chauncey Depew on Politics

"The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government."

-- Chauncey Depew, United States Senator.
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Friday, April 23, 2010

James Buchanan on Politics

"If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed."

-- James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Vladimir Lenin on Politics

"Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin."

-- Vladimir Lenin, President of the USSR.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Lee Hamilton on Politics

"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."

-- Lee Hamilton, United States Congressman.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Adolf Hitler on Politics

"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."

-- Adolf Hitler.
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Fred Upton on Politics

"We've heard this before; things are bad, we are gonna fix them, and they remain unfixed."

-- Fred Upton, United States Congressman.
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Sunday, April 18, 2010

David Ricardo on Politics

"There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits."

-- David Ricardo, political economist.
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Nikita Khrushchev on Politics

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."

-- Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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Alexis de Tocqueville on Politics

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville, French political scientist.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Michael Moore on Politics

"We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons."

-- Michael Moore, American entertainer.
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B. R. Ambedkar on Politics

"Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government."

-- B. R. Ambedkar, Indian nationalist.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Thomas Jefferson on Politics

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

-- Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States.
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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Franklin D. Roosevelt on Politics

"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States.
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Boss Tweed on Politics

"I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating."

-- Boss Tweed, American politician.
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Douglas Adams on Politics

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

-- Douglas Adams, English author
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James W. Fulbright on Politics

"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects."

-- James W. Fulbright, United States Senator.
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I. F. Stone on Politics

"Rich people march on Washington every day."

-- I. F. Stone, American author.
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Jose Antonio Viera Gallo on Politics

"Socialism can only arrive by bicycle."

-- Jose Antonio Viera Gallo, Chilean politician.
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Jalal Talabani on Politics

"Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight."

-- Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq.
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Richard Lugar on Politics

"The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity."

-- Richard Lugar, United States Senator.
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Tony Benn on Politics

"We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values."

-- Tony Benn, British socialist politician.
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Henry Bolingbroke on Politics

"The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue."

-- Henry Bolingbroke, King of England.
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Nigel Farage on Politics

"This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit."

-- Nigel Farage, British politician.
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John Kenneth Galbraith on Politics

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."

-- John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist.
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