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• I rarely meet a politician that I don’t like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

  P. J. O'Rourke

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• This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.

  Gideon Welles

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• Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

  Barry Goldwater

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• When I’m not a politician, I’ll be dead.

  Barry Goldwater

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• In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

  Gerry Adams

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• The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

  Gerry Adams

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• One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

  Gerhard Schroder

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• My dog can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings.

  Gerald B. H. Solomon

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• I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn’t have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.

  Georgios A. Papandreou

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• When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

  Georgios A. Papandreou

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• Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

  Georges Simenon

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• I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

  Georges Simenon

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• There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

  Traian Basescu

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• The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

  Tony Benn

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• I don’t want to be a politician. I don’t like politics. It’s petty; it fights dirty.

  John Mellencamp

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• I don’t want to help a politician revise the truth.

  Terry Gross

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• In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.

  George William Norris

  Topics in Country

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• A politician’s words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

  George Will

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• We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

  Felix Frankfurter

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• Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

  Sun Myung Moon

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