Barack Obama Quotes, Political Quotes, Framers Quotes

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

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Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.

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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.

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Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

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After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

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An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

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His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.

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At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

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If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

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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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Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

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Keep up appearances whatever you do.

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You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

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We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself.

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There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that's what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

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