#political life

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. ↗

— John Howard

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I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

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Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate. ↗

— James McGreevey

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I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged. ↗

— George Osborne

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Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. ↗

— John Howard

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. ↗

— Aristotle

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