Politician Quotes - Page 2

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Inspirational, Funny, Trust

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

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  If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, Patriotic, Vaccines

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• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

  Plato

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

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  We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

  John Quinton

  Funny, Tunnels, Light

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• You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

  Clint Eastwood

  Country, Jobs, Doe

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• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Ninety Nine, Giving, Political

  "The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, 1984.

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• Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

  Richard Armour

  Years, Long, Greed

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• A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Witty, Thinking, Political

  "A Politician’s Christmas Carol" by Tom Gerdy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Life, Political, Politics

  Quoted in Clement Attlee, A Prime Minister Remembers (1961) See Briand 2; Clemenceau 4

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• You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Single, Country, Believe

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• Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.

  Portia Simpson-Miller

  Sports, Country, Educational

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• It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo... What does get me angry is the ridiculous, disingenuous defending of the poop-throwing monkey.

  Jon Stewart

  Zoos, Stupid, Mad

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• Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Justice, Smart Women, Social

  "Ontario Liberal leadership candidate Kathleen Wynne: 'I want to be the social justice premier'". www.thestar.com. January 15, 2013.

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• There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Life, Change, Travel

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• I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.

  John Diefenbaker

  Country, Freedom, Believe

  John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

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• Don't be afraid of failure. That's not an easy lesson for teenagers - especially teenage girls - to learn. Our society sends us a lot of messages that imply we're supposed to be ashamed when we fall short. But I think we should be throwing each other failure parties!

  Reshma Saujani

  Encouraging, Girl, Teenage

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.

  Reshma Saujani

  Confidence, Stay Strong, Believe

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.

  Irene Parlby

  Women, Gun, Voting

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• If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.

  Tony Benn

  Mean, Order, Government

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• When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Leadership, War, Home

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• Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.

  Star Parker

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Government

  Star Parker (2015). “Blind Conceit: Politics, Policy and Racial Polarization: Moving Forward to Save America”, p.6, Sumner Books

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• The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hatred, Selfishness, Radicalism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.376, Library of America

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  Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political Will, Greed, Nerd

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Sad, Philosophy

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

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