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Quotes about politicians and poli
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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes. (Coyote Peter)
Politics is a blood sport. (Coyote Peter)
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. (Coyote Peter)
Politics is not an exact science. (Coyote Peter)
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Politics is the art of the next best. (Coyote Peter)
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life. (Coyote Peter)
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. (Coyote Peter)
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. (Coyote Peter)
In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. (Coyote Peter)
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it. (Coyote Peter)
I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep. (Coyote Peter)
The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all. (Coyote Peter)
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. (Coyote Peter)
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. (Coyote Peter)
Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats. (Coyote Peter)
A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins. (Coyote Peter)
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together. (Coyote Peter)
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. (Coyote Peter)
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. (Coyote Peter)
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. (Coyote Peter)
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. (Coyote Peter)
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. (Coyote Peter)
Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing. (Coyote Peter)
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons. (Coyote Peter)
Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. (Coyote Peter)
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