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" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Benjamin Disraeli

" If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. "

" No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. "

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" Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life. "

" When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. "

William J. Clinton

" Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. "

" I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?' "

" It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires and billionaires who can give unlimited and undisclosed amounts of money to influence our elections. "

" What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record. "

" In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' "

" It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. "

" Without alienation, there can be no politics. "

" There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. "

Margaret Thatcher

" Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. "

Caskie Stinnett

" I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics. "

" I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. "

" As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York. "

" Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection. "

" America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. "

Warren G. Harding

" I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life. "

" We must act in unison and rising above politics on the question of development of the country and empowerment of the youth to raise them as future leader in every field of our national life. "

" I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color. "

" The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. "