#politics

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. ↗

— Henry Adams

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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ↗

— Aesop

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The secret of getting things done is to act! ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ↗

— Aristotle

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Politics is compromise. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#already #become #been #campaign #day

The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics. ↗

— Glenn Beck

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