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| Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. | | John F. Kennedy | | |
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| People do not resist change -- they resist being changed. | | Unknown | | |
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| Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it. | | Karl Marx | | |
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| Politician: From the Greek "poly" ("many") and the French "tête" ("head" or "face," as in "tête-à-tête": head to head or face to face). Hence "polytetien," a person of two or more faces. | | Martin Pitt | | |
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| Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. | | Nikita Khrushchev | | |
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| Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks. | | Unknown | | |
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| Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage. | | Edouard Herriot | | |
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| Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. | | Ronald Reagan | | |
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| Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. | | Unknown | | |
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| Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. | | Paul Valéry | | |
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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. | | Oscar Ameringer | | |
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| Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many. | | Howard Koch | | |
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| Politics makes strange bedfellows stranger. | | Unknown | | |
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| Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it. | | Unknown | | |
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| Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. | | Mark Twain | | |
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| Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies. | | Unknown | | |
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| Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. | | Napoleon | | |
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| The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. | | Winston Churchill | | |
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| The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy. | | Unknown | | |
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