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Category: Politics and Diplomacy

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1. "A Democrat -- too poor to be a capitalist, too rich to be a Communist."

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2. "Diplomats were invented simply to waste time."

David Lloyd George

3. "Politics is occupational therapy for the morally handicapped."

Charles J. C. Lyall

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

4. "The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."

Lenny Bruce, "The Essential Lenny Bruce"

5. "The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

6. "Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think."

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Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Intellect, Judgement

7. "Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician."

Eugene Ionesco

Quotations about: Question and Problem

8. "Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."

Jean Baudrillard, "Cool Memories"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

9. "My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not."

Indira Gandhi

10. "Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity."

Vera Brittain, "The Rebel Passion"

Quotations about: Human

11. "In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."

Margaret Thatcher

Quotations about: Woman and Man -:- Work and Laziness

12. "Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last."

Charles de Gaulle

Quotations about: Various

13. "Being prime minister is a lonely job.... you cannot lead from the crowd."

Margaret Thatcher, "The Downing Street Years"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

14. "To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Peace and War

15. "You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side."

William Ewart Gladstone, speech to the House of Commons

Quotations about: Time and Passing

16. "Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it."

William Pitt the Elder, (speech, House of Lords, Jan 9, 1770)

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

17. "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies."

F.M. Cornford

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Truth and Falsity

18. "The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue."

Emma Goldman, "Anarchism and Other Essays"

19. "Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."

Franklin P. Adams

20. "The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

Abraham Lincoln

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

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21. "Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Quotations about: Science and Technology

22. "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."

Doug Larson

Quotations about: Authority, Government

23. "The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country."

Alfred Thompson, Baron Denning

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

24. "Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."

Nikita Khrushchev

25. "Every country has the government it deserves."

Joseph de Maistre, "Lettres et Opuscules Inedits"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

26. "In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes."

Mogens Jallberg

Quotations about: Authority, Government

27. "America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."

Arnold Toynbee

Quotations about: History and Nations

28. "Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies."

W. L. George

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Peace and War

29. "We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart."

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki), "The Unbearable Bassington"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

30. "Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great."

Clement Attlee

Quotations about: History and Nations

31. "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."

David Friedman

Quotations about: Peace and War -:- Power and Weakness

32. "Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."

Mao Zedong

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

33. "In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."

C. Northcote Parkinson

34. "If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."

Leon Trotsky, "My Life"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

35. "A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth."

Michael Kinsley

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

36. "Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation."

Will Rogers, "Wit and Wisdom"

37. "All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."

John Arbuthnot

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

38. "Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

Salman Rushdie

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Authority, Government

39. "It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in."

graffito, London, 70's

Quotations about: Authority, Government

40. "Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky."

Boris Yeltsin

Quotations about: Authority, Government

41. "Politics is the enemy of the imagination."

Ian McEwan

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

42. "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

Hannah Arendt

43. "In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves."

R. A. Butler

44. "Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will."

Mikhail Bakunin

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

45. "Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died."

Andrew Young

46. "My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog."

Carl Rowan

47. "The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous... Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead."

Harold Rosenberg, "The Tradition of the New"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

48. "A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children."

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Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

49. "Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart."

Yasir Arafat

Quotations about: History and Nations

50. "Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."

Henry Brooks Adams

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