Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Political Quotes

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

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I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

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The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

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Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process.

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Order Quotes , Political Quotes

T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

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Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

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It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

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There ought to be limits to freedom.

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I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

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Please don't kill me!

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In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

6 years ago

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Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

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Keep good relations with the Grecians.

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Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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Some of Donald Trump's gifts that obviously allowed him to execute one of the biggest political upsets in history, those are ones that hopefully he will put to good use on behalf of all the American people.

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