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| Gore Vidal
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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| R. Buckminster Fuller
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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| William O. Douglas
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
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| Mark Twain
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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| Reinhold Niebuhr
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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| Thomas Jefferson
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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| William Randolph
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
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| Gary Hart
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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| Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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| Alexis de Tocqueville
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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| William E. Simon
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
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| Caskie Stinnett
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.
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| Thomas Paine
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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| Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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| Aesop
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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| Will Rogers
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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| Cal Thomas
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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| Kin Hubbard
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
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| Bernard Baruch
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
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| Robin Williams
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
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| Ambrose Bierce
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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| Ross Perot
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
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| Winston Churchill
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
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| Aristotle
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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| Clarence Darrow
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
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