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Where his rule meant terror and division and brutality, let his capture bring about unity, reconciliation and peace between all the people of Iraq.
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Politicians Quotations Click The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtshipAchard, Marcel When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for themAdams, Franklin Pierce The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset DarwinAdams, Henry Brooks During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.Allen, Fred The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolutionArendt, Hannah The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he doesBarrès, Maurice He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political careerBesant, Sir Walter With a gentleman I try to be a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.Bismarck, Otto von Nowadays it's not as important for voters to know what a politician has done as what he or she hasn't doneBlakeman, Edward When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the peopleBurke, Edmund It is the business of the speculative philosopher to mark the proper ends of government. It is the business of the politician, who is the philosopher in action, to find out the proper means towards those ends, and to employ them with effect.Burke, Edmund Thoughts on the cause of the present Discontents Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hairBurns, George I think a President must not try to write the legacy of every moment. The President just does what he thinks is right.Bush, President George W During an interview for the British Newspaper 'The Daily Telegraph', prior to his state visit to Britain In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolvesButler, R. A Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weaponsCannon, Joe At every crisis the Kaiser crumpled. In defeat he fled; in revolution he abdicated; in exile he remarried.Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking itChurchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of electionsChurchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happenChurchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer « Previous Page | Next Page » |
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