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“Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?”

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Book:It Doesn't Have to be Like this: Green Politics Explained

Source: It Doesn't Have to be Like this: Green Politics Explained

“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.”

“A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.”

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Author:James Freeman

“I believe we're at the verge of the greatest time to be alive in this world. But Washington is holding us back. How we tax, how we regulate. We're not embracing the energy revolution in our midst, a broken immigration system that has been politicized rather than turning it into an economic driver. We're not protecting and preserving our entitlement system or reforming for the next generation. All these things languish while we have politicians in Washington using these as wedge issues.”

“We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“I see Hillary [Clinton] as a calculating politician without any vision. It depends what the next thing is that they calculate she needs to say.”

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Author:John Kasich

“I thought Donald Trump approach on Brexit was a fascinating window into how he thinks. His basic point was that [David] Cameron should resign because he didn't read the public mood on the issue right. And that Boris Johnson should be the next prime minister because he did. That's a very different definition of leadership than many politicians have. Or at least say they have.”

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Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza

“The Supreme Court nominations [example]. I mean, the fact that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans, was able to just stop a nomination almost a year before the next election and really not pay a political price for it, that's a sign that the incentives for politicians in this town to be so sharply partisan have gotten so outta hand that we're weakening ourselves.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.”

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Author:Linda Lingle

“If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.”

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Author:Claude Pepper

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century