• What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.3 · 38 votes · 150 reads

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• What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

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  David Lloyd George

  PoliticianBritish1863 · 19th century

  4.1 · 22 votes · 6 reads

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• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.8 · 24 votes · 106 reads

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• What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.0 · 54 votes · 39 reads

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• What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  5.0 · 30 votes · 144 reads

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• What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  5.0 · 28 votes · 29 reads

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• What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 55 votes · 194 reads

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• When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.2 · 13 votes · 85 reads

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• When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.9 · 15 votes · 93 reads

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• When great questions end, little parties begin.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 119 reads

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• When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.8 · 33 votes · 122 reads

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• When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ''present'' or ''not guilty.''

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.9 · 39 votes · 49 reads

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• When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.3 · 60 votes · 2 reads

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• When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

  

  Jacques Chirac

  PoliticianFrench1932 · 20th century

  5.0 · 55 votes · 6 reads

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• When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it's a very important decision.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.5 · 50 votes · 66 reads

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• Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 103 reads

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• Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 166 reads

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• You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 25 votes · 194 reads

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• You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  3.1 · 32 votes · 189 reads

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• You know no one will ever accuse me as having the same policies as George W. Bush.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 14 votes · 87 reads

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• You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of pol

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.8 · 20 votes · 97 reads

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• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.9 · 42 votes · 166 reads

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