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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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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Political Quotes , Consistency Quotes

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

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...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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They wanted me to be a Washington.

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He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

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The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

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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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Tags : Adam McKay Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Political Quotes

The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

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This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Humor Quotes , Political Quotes

I am mindful that we're all sinners.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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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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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Political Quotes

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Play Quotes , Political Quotes

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Political Quotes