• A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  3.1 · 20 votes · 107 reads

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• A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 38 reads

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• A politician is one that would circumvent God.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 40 votes · 108 reads

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• A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  4.8 · 42 votes · 178 reads

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• A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and doctors. I don't believe it. They are simply the people we are most afraid of. And with the most reason.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 47 votes · 2 reads

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• A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.5 · 37 votes · 102 reads

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• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.8 · 22 votes · 13 reads

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• American politics is always an open competition.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.9 · 32 votes · 115 reads

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• An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.2 · 28 votes · 137 reads

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• Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.2 · 21 votes · 72 reads

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• Any cook should be able to run the country.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 36 reads

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• Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 47 votes · 163 reads

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• As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the European Union.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.1 · 39 votes · 150 reads

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• As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 71 reads

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• Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  4.5 · 48 votes · 15 reads

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• Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.1 · 64 votes · 118 reads

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• Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 141 reads

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• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 28 reads

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• Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.6 · 53 votes · 59 reads

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• Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared pros

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.6 · 46 votes · 131 reads

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• Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.5 · 60 votes · 40 reads

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• Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

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  Dilma Rousseff

  PoliticianBrazilian1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 41 votes · 173 reads

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• Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.8 · 7 votes · 14 reads

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• Finality is not the language of politics.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.3 · 10 votes · 87 reads

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• Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.0 · 24 votes · 162 reads

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• Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

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  Horst Koehler

  PoliticianGerman1943 · 20th century

  4.4 · 28 votes · 108 reads

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• Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.7 · 52 votes · 79 reads

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• Half a truth is better than no politics.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  5.0 · 55 votes · 187 reads

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• He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.3 · 38 votes · 158 reads

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• He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  4.3 · 34 votes · 161 reads

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• He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.9 · 14 votes · 83 reads

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• Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  3.5 · 42 votes · 176 reads

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• Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 20 votes · 40 reads

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• I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 48 reads

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• I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.9 · 12 votes · 58 reads

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• I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.1 · 14 votes · 80 reads

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• I am a person that when I go in the street, everybody knows me and goes: 'Oh, you are entering politics.' I want to do something positive for the future. It doesn't mean to become a leader of a party.

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  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

  4.0 · 11 votes · 27 reads

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• I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.6 · 53 votes · 117 reads

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• I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.7 · 38 votes · 21 reads

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• I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 36 reads

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• I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.

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  Dilma Rousseff

  PoliticianBrazilian1947 · 20th century

  4.8 · 40 votes · 62 reads

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• I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

  

  Gerhard Schroder

  PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 31 reads

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• I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.7 · 24 votes · 185 reads

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• I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

  

  José Ortega y Gasset

  PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century

  4.8 · 12 votes · 63 reads

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• I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.8 · 27 votes · 188 reads

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• I don't think it's at all weakening of the system if people with the same last name put themselves forward to the electorate, when their experiences, their character, and in my case, gender, may be different.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.7 · 42 votes · 101 reads

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• I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.1 · 34 votes · 109 reads

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• I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in

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  Dilma Rousseff

  PoliticianBrazilian1947 · 20th century

  4.7 · 22 votes · 39 reads

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• I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience,

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.7 · 42 votes · 98 reads

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• I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.0 · 31 votes · 68 reads

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• I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way.

  

  Helmut Kohl

  PoliticianGerman1930 · 20th century

  4.3 · 44 votes · 72 reads

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• I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  5.0 · 30 votes · 186 reads

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• I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, beli

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.3 · 56 votes · 192 reads

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• I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 193 reads

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• I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.0 · 56 votes · 13 reads

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• I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.5 · 9 votes · 165 reads

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• I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.9 · 21 votes · 183 reads

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• I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.4 · 46 votes · 172 reads

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• I think every election is sui generis. I think it starts with where we are in the country at this time, with what Americans are thinking, feeling and hoping, and it proceeds from there. And it is always about the future.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 10 reads

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• I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.3 · 24 votes · 71 reads

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• I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

  

  Shinzo Abe

  PoliticianJapanese1954 · 20th century

  3.6 · 62 votes · 44 reads

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• I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.2 · 46 votes · 84 reads

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• I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.2 · 10 votes · 31 reads

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• I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.4 · 10 votes · 12 reads

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• I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.6 · 19 votes · 121 reads

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• I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.6 · 21 votes · 106 reads

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• I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

  

  Silvio Berlusconi

  PoliticianItalian1936 · 20th century

  4.8 · 64 votes · 128 reads

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• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.4 · 37 votes · 62 reads

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• If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

  

  Silvio Berlusconi

  PoliticianItalian1936 · 20th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 97 reads

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• If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.1 · 64 votes · 51 reads

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• If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.0 · 44 votes · 59 reads

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• If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 25 votes · 11 reads

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• If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.7 · 42 votes · 52 reads

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• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.5 · 44 votes · 113 reads

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• If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.0 · 31 votes · 69 reads

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• In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 61 reads

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• In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.3 · 15 votes · 170 reads

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• In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 48 votes · 68 reads

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• In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.1 · 39 votes · 186 reads

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• In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.6 · 16 votes · 200 reads

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