We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
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