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In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.
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In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.
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In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
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It doesn’t matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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It is the weaker sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president… except me.
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I’ve said, these politicians that switched to Giuliani, they’re all gonna get paid off. Read American history, Tammany Hall, Boss Tweed. You can’t be stupid about where you live!
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John Connally comes out onto his estate lawn in pajamas surveying the forced auction of his possessions and asks if anyone has a cup of coffee.
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Keep your heart a desert.
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Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.
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Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever
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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint — Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.
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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
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