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Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
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Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.
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Politicization means the expansion is slowing up and you are no longer attempting to achieve increased output per capita, or increased wealth, or increased satisfactions... but you are doing so by mobilizing power. We have seen this going on for almost a century....increased militarization.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
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Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
First inaugural address, Washington, D.C. (January 20, 1993) -
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. When alive, would not have contributed.
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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
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Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.
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