Politicians And Politics

(336 votes)   The older generation are leading this country to galloping ruin!

John Lennon
1940-1980, An English member of the “Beatles” & songwriter.

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(331 votes)   It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967

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(291 votes)   By allowing this vote, and allowing the will of Congress to be freely expressed, you will be doing the right thing morally and, at the same time, encouraging Turkey to deal honestly with its past and more openly with its future.

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967

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(231 votes)   Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(211 votes)   The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

John B. Anderson

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(198 votes)   It takes a room full of important people to cause an argument. And yet a nation of innocent people to put it right.

Colin Ager
Human

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(183 votes)   Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Oscar Ameringer
American Author, Critic

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(171 votes)   Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Kingsley Amis
1922-1995, British Novelist

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(169 votes)   A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(165 votes)   I don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and who want to learn more about what's going on. I do find people with a lot of opinions. And I get a lot of people who come up to me and give us props for what we do.

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967

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(155 votes)   Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(148 votes)   In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(138 votes)   Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian

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(135 votes)   If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Lyndon B. Johnson
1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA

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(116 votes)   The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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