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You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

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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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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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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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Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.

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

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

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There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

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I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get more credit than they deserve. They are just better at political discourse that we are.

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For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

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It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

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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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I am mindful that we're all sinners.

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Take it from me, every vote counts.

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