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Politics/Government
- It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
- -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
- -- Groucho Marx
- It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
- -- Eugene McCarthy
- If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
- -- H. L. Mencken
- In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
- -- H. L. Mencken
- Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right.
- -- H. L. Mencken
- Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
- -- John Stuart Mill
- My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
- --
Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician
- Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
- -- Londo Molari
- Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar.
- -- Bill Moyers
- Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- -- George Jean Nathan
- We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
- -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa
- Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-resurrection" coverage. He later amended that to "cradle to grave."
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