Christie Todd Whitman on Politics

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room."

-- Christie Todd Whitman, Governor of New Jersey.
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Confucius on Politics

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

-- Confucius.
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Samuel Adams on Politics

"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."

-- Samuel Adams, American statesman.
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Sam Ervin on Politics

"The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock."

-- Sam Ervin, United States Senator.
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Hugo Black on Politics

"A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion."

-- Hugo Black, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

“We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.”

-- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran.
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Jeff Miller on Politics

"But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain."

-- Jeff Miller, United States Congressman.
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James Bovard on Politics

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."

-- James Bovard, American author.
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Michael Novak on Politics

"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work."

-- Michael Novak, American author.
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Reform Party on Politics

"We commit ourselves to reform our political system. Together we will work to re-establish trust in our government by electing ethical officials, dedicated to fiscal responsibility and political accountability."

-- Reform Party of the United States.
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H. L. Mencken on Politics

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."

-- H. L. Mencken, American author.
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Aristotle on Politics

"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."

-- Aristotle, philosopher.
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Charles Grassley on Politics

"If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes."

-- Charles Grassley, United States Senator.
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Joe McGinniss on Politics

"Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game."

-- Joe McGinniss, American author.
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William Howard Taft on Politics

"We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement."

-- William Howard Taft, President of the United States.
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Lewis H. Lapham on Politics

"Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?"

-- Lewis H. Lapham, American author.
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Henry Fountain Ashurst on Politics

"When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget."

-- Henry Fountain Ashurst, United States senator.
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Plato on Politics

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

-- Plato, philosopher.
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David Broder on Politics

"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."

-- David Broder, American journalist.
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Molly Ivins on Politics

"The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion."

-- Molly Ivins, American author.
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American Reform Party

"If we are ever successful in this effort, our philosophy will then be "populist" thereby, and more representative of the Democratic Republic we profess ourselves to be a government, "of the people, by the people, and for the people."

-- American Reform Party.
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Claude Pepper on Politics

"The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed."

-- Claude Pepper, United States Congressman.
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Everett Dirksen on Politics

"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."

-- Everett Dirksen, United States Senator.
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Jennifer Dunn on Politics

"As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook."

-- Jennifer Dunn, United States Congresswoman.
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Alan Clark on Politics

"There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water."

-- Alan Clark, British politician.
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Ric Keller on Politics

"You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think."

-- Ric Keller, United States Congressman.
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Henry George on Politics

"There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism."

-- Henry George, political economist.
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Abbie Hoffman on Politics

"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."

-- Abbie Hoffman, American political activist.
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