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" Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. "
Thomas Jefferson
His
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" From politics, it was an easy step to silence. "
Jane Austen
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" I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along. "
A. S. Byatt
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Good
I Am
" Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "
Charles de Gaulle
Matter
Politics
Serious
" Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional. "
Justin Trudeau
You
Like
People
" Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. "
Woodrow Wilson
Science
Progress
Society
" Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. "
Winston Churchill
Month
Politics
Tomorrow
" Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics. "
Shirley Temple
You
Think
Shy
" Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night. "
Ted Cruz
Night
Path
Politics
" I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for two teams. "
Rick Perlstein
Team
Control
Two
" Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians. "
Fletcher Knebel
People
Art
Politicians
" There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable. "
Hillary Clinton
World
Live
People
" There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. "
Alan Clark
Friends
Politics
Water
" A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer! "
Pope Francis
Politics
Best
Good
" I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics. "
Norm MacDonald
Much
Know
Anything
" When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost. "
Patrick Lencioni
Truth
Ego
Lost
" Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. "
Charles Krauthammer
America
Trust
Two
" Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. "
Russell Baker
Politics
Rest
World
" One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless. "
Frank Lautenberg
Politics
Party
I Have Learned
" Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. "
Vladimir Lenin
Where
Serious
Masses
" I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. "
Thomas Jefferson
Seen
War
Enough
" The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. "
Thomas Jefferson
Time
Patriotism
Tree
" Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. "
Ambrose Bierce
Principles
Politics
Interests
" I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else. "
William Howard Taft
Best
I Am
Know
" If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. "
Robert Reich
Give
Up
Done
" So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. "
Thomas Jefferson
Confident
Wisdom
Government
" Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. "
Thomas Jefferson
Health
Say
Reading
" A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money. "
Carter Glass
Liberal
Man
Money
" Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. "
Thomas Jefferson
May
Errors
Reason
" Be polite to all, but intimate with few. "
Thomas Jefferson
Polite
Intimate
Few
" At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. "
Stephen Breyer
Politics
Political
Point