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Politics
Polical Quotes
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." ~ Ernest Benn
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." ~ Will Rogers
"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end." ~ Margaret Thatcher
"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word." ~ Charles de Gaulle
"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important." ~ Eugene McCarthy
"It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth." ~ Robert Armstrong, while Cabinet Secretary
"Win or lose, we go shopping after the election." ~ Imelda Marcos
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." ~ Marily Vos Savant
"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them." ~ William Shakespeare
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
"If you're going through hell, keep going." ~ Sir Winston Churchill
"He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul." ~ David Lloyd George
"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." ~ George Patton, US
"The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those do not assume to interfere by violence with ours." ~ William James
"Finishing second in the Olmpics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion" ~ Richard M. Nixon
"You have enemies? Good! It means you've stood up for something at least once in your life." ~ Winston Churchill
"I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do" ~ Wellington, on reading the names of the officers allocated to his command.
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." ~ Edward Abbey (1927-1989) , Author
After he gave a speech, a friend asked, 'Aren't you impressed that 10,000 people came to hear you speak?' ~ Winston Churchill replied, "Not really. 100,000 would come to see me hang."
"Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home" ~ Winston Churchill
"The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate." ~ Sir Winston Churchill
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." ~ Sir Winston Churchill
"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top." ~ Frank Moore Colby
"If you can't convince them, confuse them." ~ Harry S. Truman
"Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you" ~ Ken Livingstone, Politician
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it." ~ Thomas Sowell
"It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going." ~ Abraham Lincoln
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook" ~ William James, Psychologist
"Politics is showbusiness for ugly people" ~Jay Leno
"If you can’t convince them, confuse them." ~ Harry Truman
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" ~ Leo Tolstoy
"It is not the clear sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog" ~ Joseph Conrad
"If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target" ~ Damian Green
"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere" ~ Ronald Reagan
"Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder" ~ Ronald Reagan
"Lead, follow, or get out of the way." ~ James L. Lundy
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." ~ Bertrand Russell
"They say hard work never hurt anybody, but, I figure, why take the chance?" ~ Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the USA
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." ~ Mohandas Gandhi
"War hath no fury like a non-combatant" ~ Charles Edward Montague, Editor and critic.
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." ~ Theodore Roosevelt
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire". ~ Sir Winston Churchill
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." ~ Mark Twain
"When I fed the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why are they poor, they called me a communist." ~ Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop, Brazil.
"Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing" ~ Paul Flynn, Labour Member of Parliament for Newport West since 1987.