#pol

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles." (Young India, 22 October 1925) ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

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Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks. ↗

— Lou Thesz

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If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

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No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount. ↗

— Frederick Scott Oliver

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It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct. ↗

— Frederick Scott Oliver

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We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice. ↗

— Barbara Olson

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