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Category: Politics and Diplomacy

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1. "All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy."

Alfred Emanuel Smith

2. "What were politicians? A politician was a person with whose politics you did not agree. When you did agree, he was a statesman."

David Lloyd George

3. "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

4. "A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service."

Georges Pompidou

Quotations about: Authority, Government

5. "A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip."

Caskie Stinnett

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

6. "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

Quotations about: Justice

7. "Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."

Clement Attlee

Quotations about: Authority, Government

8. "A conservative is a politician who wants to keep what the liberals fought for a generation ago."

Anon.

9. "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

Robert Lee Frost

Quotations about: Woman and Man

10. "Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice."

Adlai E. Stevenson II

Quotations about: Justice

11. "A candidate is someone who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other."

Anon.

Quotations about: Richness and Money

12. "Lawyer (n): Larval stage of Politician."

Anon.

Quotations about: Law and Crime

13. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

Mao Zedong

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

14. "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

Mao Zedong

Quotations about: Peace and War

15. "A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years."

Harry S. Truman

Quotations about: Authority, Government

16. "Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics."

Albert Camus

17. "Envy is the basis of democracy."

Bertrand Russell, "Conquest of Happiness"

Quotations about: Envy

18. "He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."

George Bernard Shaw, "Major Barbara"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

19. "Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third."

Ambrose Bierce

20. "Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."

Charles de Gaulle

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

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21. "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

Henry Kissinger

22. "Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

Ambrose Bierce, "Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Peace and War

23. "Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Quotations about: Authority, Government

24. "A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader."

Bernard Mannes Baruch

25. "Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

Henry Brooks Adams, "Education of Henry Adams"

26. "The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve."

Dean Gooderham Acheson

27. "Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance."

Henry Louis Mencken

28. "A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."

Joseph Stalin

29. "How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read."

Karl Kraus

30. "Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Patriotism

31. "Those who cast the Votes, they decide nothing. Those who count the votes, they decide everything."

Joseph Stalin

Quotations about: Authority, Government

32. "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

Ronald Reagan

33. "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

John Kenneth Galbraith

34. "The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience."

Winston Churchill

35. "The United States never lost a war or won a conference."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: History and Nations

36. "The Polish Communists are just like radishes. They are only red on the outside."

Lech Walesa

37. "Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work."

Will Rogers

38. "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."

John Kenneth Galbraith

39. "It`s not the voting that`s democracy, it`s the counting."

Tom Stoppard, "Jumpers"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

40. "Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Peace and War

41. "True democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

42. "We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate."

Kin Hubbard

43. "To wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: History and Nations

44. "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."

Will Rogers

45. "If intelligence had anything to do with the voting process, then all the smart people would vote the same."

Anon.

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

46. "Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators."

Will Rogers

47. "Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."

Henry Louis Mencken

48. "Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy."

Peter Ustinov

49. "Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage."

Henry Louis Mencken

50. "Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

Henry Louis Mencken

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