On the night of New Year’s Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year’s resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.
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Martha Gellhorn
The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.
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James Freeman Clarke
He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.
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Nick Taylor
Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.
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Vladimir Odoyevsky
Only one thing to it: a strong stomach. The guts to gladhand a man you're going to stab in the back; pledge allegiance to principles you stomp on every day; righteously denounce some despot in the press and sell him arms under the table. The...
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Alan VanMeter
Since capitalism is a system based of the love of money, doesn't that make it the root of all evil?
People are lot like peanuts... It's not what's on the outside that matters, and that damn shell just gets shucked into the trash anyhow.
Since the Devil is in the details... I don't think I'll elaborate.
When it's all been said and done... There's hell of a lot more said, than done.
Why do politicians lie? Because people like being lied to. Just look at any political rally. P. S. You're great!