A Quotes
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“A polite man learns from everyone, a proud man learns from no one.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A politica é uma embriaguez; nos intervallos em que o espirito se sente desanuviado dos vapores em que ella o envolve, pesam-nos os desacertos a que fomos arrastados; o desgosto do mal feito insinua-se-nos no coração; cêdo, porém, a violencia dos habitos subjuga os remorsos da consciencia, e de novo nos arrasta.”
“A political action committee trying to raise money for a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign is selling “Ready for Hillary” champagne glasses and Christmas ornaments. Because if one thing improves the holidays, it's drinking mixed with politics.”
“A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.”
“A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.”
“A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.”
“A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.”
“A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.”
“A political consultant, when we first started thinking about Senate race, said, "You can have one funny name. You can be 'Barack Smith.' Or you can be 'Joe Obama.' But 'Barack Obama' - that's not gonna work."”
“A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.”
Source: The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations
“A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.”
“A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.”
Source: The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays
“A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore - the revelations really hurt their mystique. The last ten years, they were getting the Zero Dark Thirty treatment - they're the heroes. The surveillance revelations bring them back to Big Brother kind of narratives, and they don't like that at all.”
“A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.”
“A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.”
“A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.”
“A political leader worthy of assassination”
“A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor of two presidential campaigns and my duties as First Lady took me to every state in our union and to seventy-eight nations. In each place, I met someone or saw something that caused me to open my mind and my heart and deepen my understanding of the universal concerns that most of humanity shares.”
“A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.”
“A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and strongly worded resolutions out of touch with the objective conditions do not bring about mass action and can do a great deal of harm to the organization and the struggle we serve.”
Source: The struggle is my life
“A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.”
Source: Practical Agitation
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.”
Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.”
“A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such.”
“A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.”
“A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.”
Source: The Crucible
“A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.”
“A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.”
“A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.”
“A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.”
“A political solution is going to involve neighboring countries... You will have to bring people together to agree on a political process. If that includes supporting a military exercise of some sort without sending troops, that is on the table, as long as this is not the only option that people look at.”
“A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.”
“A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible”
Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics
“A political war can be fought from anywhere.”
“A politically divided and destabilized America - an America drifting toward white nationalism, authoritarianism, and isolationism - will pose no challenge (...). Page 467.”
Source: The Cellist
“A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.”
“A politician can be your son, uncle or even your cousin; they are just simple people like you.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“A politician can do what he thinks is right, he just has to be sophisticated in how he goes about it. Those who seek a president who 'will disregard the polls and just lead,' ask for the political equivalent of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade.'”
Source: The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century
“A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.”
“A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.”
“A politician is a man in his natural state”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.”
“A politician is a man who checks his views in the internet and his value in the bank.”
Source: Aphorisms - quotations about: life, art, woman&man, politics and money: 64 fields
“A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.”
“A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.”
“A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.”
“A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.”
“A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.”
“A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.”
“A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.”
Source: The Early Life of Stephen Hind