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 Will Rogers
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
I never met a man that I didn't like.
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
