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The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#liberal #politics #change

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#field #get #more #only #politics

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#black #black hat #foreign #foreign policy #go

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

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Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. ↗

— George Gallup

#attention #effect #instrument #interpretation #leader

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#cows #daring #eaten #enough #exists

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises. ↗

— Peter Garrett

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No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#bring #department #did #first #had

Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#before #believed #crime #department #every

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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