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David D. Clark | Politics Quotes
We reject: kings, presidents and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Clarence Darrow
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.




Ugo Cavallero
I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.
Oscar Levant
I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it."
John James Ingalls | Politics Quotes
The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.
George Bernard Shaw
You in America should trust to that volcanic political instinct which I have divined in you.
Jane Austen
...from politics, it was an easy step to silence.
James Bovard
Truth is a lagging indicator in politics.
John Kenneth Galbraith
American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.
Mary Wollstonecraft | Politics Quotes
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.




Ruhollah Khomeini
Islam is politics or it is nothing.
John Morley
The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
Mark Riebling
Many good writers, from Montaigne to Mencken, have been impolitic, colicky, or sassy.
Richard Wagner
A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
Alan Grayson | Politics Quotes
"He's just angry because the president [Obama] doesn't shoot old men in the face."
Ze Frank
The president said some words, like nouns and verbs.
Alvin Toffler
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
John Avlon
Politics is history in the present tense.
Malcolm Bradbury
In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.


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