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Politics/Government
- Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
- -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure
- Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
- -- Mark B. Cohen
- When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
- -- Clarence Darrow
- Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
- -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
- The multitude is always in the wrong.
- -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684
- Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
- -- Paulo Freire
- A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
- -- Robert Frost
- Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- -- John Kenneth Galbraith
- The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
- -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism
- Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
- --
Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995
- We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
- -- Buck Henry
- What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
- -- Adolf Hitler
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