#politics

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

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I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off. ↗

— Chris Patten

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I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor. ↗

— Chris Patten

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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. ↗

— Bill Moyers

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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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