Quotes 61 till 80 of 84.
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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.
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The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.
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The news of any politician's death should be listed under ''Public Improvements.''
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
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The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
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The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
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The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
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There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
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This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
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What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician - these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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