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  When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Sarcastic, Believe

  Quoted in Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941)

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• Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Literature

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Success, Powerful, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

  George Jean Nathan

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Political

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• A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

  Carl Sandburg

  Talking, Should Have, Political

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• I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

  Kenneth Clarke

  Europe, Political, Looks

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• How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?

  Thomas Sowell

  Long, People, Heaven

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• Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Evil, Political, Wish

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 56

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• Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mom, Mother, Growing Up

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Success, Men

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• I am not a politician.

  Erskine Bowles

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• Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

  Helen Clark

  Girl, Strong Women, Smart Women

  "Gentleman Don Affronted by Sexist Tag". www.nzherald.co.nz. August 24, 2005.

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• Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Fear, America, Political

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• The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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• Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.

  Jacque Fresco

  Years, Agriculture, World

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• Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Glasses, Society

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [175]

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• You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.

  Will Rogers

  Atheist, Lying, People

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• Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

  Michael Manley

  Believe, Mean, Rights

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• If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

  Brad Sherman

  Inspirational, Education, Wise

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• Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Believe, Principles

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  If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

  James Madison

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

  "The Last Enemy" by Rebecca Sato, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2010.

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• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, War, Party

  Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (222), 1956.

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• I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Money, Inspirational Life, Men

  "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,

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• I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, Religion

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• He who stops being better stops being good.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Writing

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