Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
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