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“You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.”

World Giving Interest Politician Degrees Gains Independence Wide Acquaintance Effectiveness

Author:William Hague

“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

“Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.”

Trying Political Lying Individual Politician Gains Blame Faults Greedy

Author:Pat Paulsen

“As Iraqi forces gain experience and the political process advances, we will be able to decrease our troop level in Iraq without losing our capability to defeat the terrorists. These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgment of our commanders, not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington.”

Able Political Force Process Decision Levels Conditions Politician Judgment Losing Gains Defeat Iraq Driven Terrorist Capability Artificial Commanders Decrease Good Judgment Timetables

Author:George W. Bush

“Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.”

Government Political Values Politics Politician Gains Nuts

Book:The Reagan wit

Source: The Reagan wit

“Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.”

Men Made Political Religious Mistake Dad Politician Gains Advantage Sleeves Fatal Mistakes

Author:Ron Reagan

“What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.”

Mean Law Order Turns Winning Practice Politician Gains Vote Property Campaigns Contribution Domain Campaign Contributions Eminent Domain

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in criticisms of religion even clarity ceases to be a virtue and sounds like aggressive hostility. A politician may attack an opponent scathingly across the floor of the House and earn plaudits for his robust pugnacity. But let a soberly reasoning critic of religion employ what would in other contexts sound merely direct or forthright, and it will be described as a 'rant'.”

Source: The God Delusion

“It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is shameful to see politicians exploiting these human weaknesses in order to gain political power. It is most depressing of all to contemplate a future in which politicians who do this will continue to have influence over people's lives.”

“By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black Lives Matter movement comes from, the history of resistance, the history of how politicians have used criminality over the decades for a particular political gain. It's to give people an understanding of it so they can make their own decisions about how they want to be in the world.”

“More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?”

Ifs Firsts Humans Political Values Party Issues Politician Republican Taxes Gains Weak Response Rate Human Life Abandon Republican Party Pro Life Stance Analysts

Author:Gary Bauer

“I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”

Ends Spirit Politics Party Mankind Politician Gains Madness Unhappy Division

Author:Alexander Pope

“Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”

Political Spirit Politics Party Politician Gains Madness Political Parties Politicians And Politics

Author:Alexander Pope

“After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.”

People Believe Made Process Politician Promise Gains Assuming Labour Fulfilled Say Anything Follow Through Disenchanted

Author:Adam Rickitt

“Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.”

Political Politics Party Politician Gains Madness Political Parties Politicians And Politics

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and Sheridan

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and Sheridan

“As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.”

“I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.”

Should School Boys Courage Politician Gains Hardest Enlightened Copies Cunning

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton