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“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
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“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

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Author:Aesop
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“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”

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Author:Mark Twain
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“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.”

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Author:Mark Twain
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“The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).”

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Author:Michel Foucault
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“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004
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“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."”

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Author:Isaac Asimov
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“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”

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Author:Oscar Ameringer
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“Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of leaders to tackle the causes and to settle for peace, and international determination to push for peace and then to consolidate it. Consolidating peace means helping societies emerging from war to reintegrate refugees in safety and dignity, to rebuild their institutions - including in the field of justice and human rights - and to resume their economic development.”

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Author:Sadako Ogata
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“If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky
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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

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Book:Churchill By Himself
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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

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Author:Plato
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“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.”

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Book:C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings
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“[N]o clear steps have actually been taken to apprehend and prosecute those known to have been in command of the camp or the forces operating there....The new government of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has pledged to act. It must now generate the political will to act. The protection of those responsible for this crime can no longer be tolerated.”

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Author:Ben Cardin
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“A convention on the comprehensive ban of nuclear weapons should be negotiated. Since biological and chemical weapons have been prohibited, there is no reason why nuclear weapons, which are more destructive, should not be comprehensively banned and thoroughly destroyed. All it takes to reach this objective is strong political will.”

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Author:Jiang Zemin
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