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" Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. "
Henry Kissinger
Reputation
Bad
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Always
" The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony. "
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" That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics. "
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" I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy. "
Henry Kissinger
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" That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics. "
Thomas P. O'Neill
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" I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. "
Henry Kissinger
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Page
Myself
" Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
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" High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power. "
Joseph Stiglitz
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" There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal. "
Condoleezza Rice
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" I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. "
Hubert H. Humphrey
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University
" War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. "
Colin Powell
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People
" The money in politics is a cash cow for the media. "
Noam Chomsky
Cow
Cash
Media
" It's not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics. "
Milo Yiannopoulos
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Think
People
" Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR. "
Paul Weyrich
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" When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. "
Edmund Burke
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Good
Struggle
" I never let my politics supersede my manners. "
Darren Criss
Never
Politics
Manners
" The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes. "
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" No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. "
Henry Kissinger
Matter
Born
Success
" If someone uses the uniform, whatever uniform, for partisan politics, I am disappointed because I think it does erode that bond of trust we have with the American people. "
Martin Dempsey
Trust
I Am
People
" I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. "
T. S. Eliot
I Am
Am
Literature
" I would prefer not to be involved in party politics. "
George Soros
Involved
Would
Prefer
" Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. "
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" Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. "
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Pockets
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" Politics is the one field you don't age out of. "
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" The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. "
Henry Kissinger
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Mao Zedong
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Without
While
" There are no friends at cards or world politics. "
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World
Friends
" The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice. "
Malcolm Turnbull
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You
Best