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Politics Quotes

"The Socialists have spared no expense in producing a policy for the next election. There is a great deal in it that is sound sense, as well as a lot more that is all sound and all nonsense."

"Statesmen are not called upon only to settle easy questions. These often settle themselves. It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself."

"How can I accept the Order of the Garter, when the people of England have just given me the Order of the Boot?"

"In politics when you are in doubt what to do, do nothing … when you are in doubt what to say, say what you really think."

"Blood, toil, tears and sweat (addendum) I stand by my original programme, blood, toil, tears and sweat…to which I added five months later, “many shortcomings, mistakes and disappointments."

"In the twinkling of an eye, I found myself without an office, without a seat, without a party, and without an appendix."

"No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I r"

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."

"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires"

"When dead men come hunting in the night do you think it matters who sits on the Iron Throne"

"An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere"

"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security"

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under"

"To me, it seems that the countries that are doing the best are those that are distancing themselves from ideology"

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors"

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