 | "It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."
- Albert Einstein
, 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946. |
| "Crime does not pay... as well as politics."
- Alfred E. Newman
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| "Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."
- Ambrose Bierce
, The Devil's Dictionary. |
| "Man is by nature a political animal."
- Aristotle
, Politics. |
| "I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
- Charles De Gaulle
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| "Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies."
- Dalton Camp
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| "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."
- Ernest Benn
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| "Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important."
- Eugene McCarthy
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| "When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them."
- Franklin P. Adams
, Nods and Becks (1944). |
| "The problem with political jokes is they get elected."
- Henry Cate VII
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