Quotes: "politics"

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"I have come to the conclusion that politics

is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

-- Charles De Gaulle

(1890-1970) French president and military leader

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/C...ulle.Quote.F7F2

 

 

"Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity.

They are the vital process of policy among free men."

-- Herbert Hoover

(1874-1964), 31st US President

Source: Speech, 1950

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/H...over.Quote.4E01

 

 

"Every politician, every member of the clerical profession,

ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested

supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition,

and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it."

-- Thomas Cooper

(1759-1839)

Source: Liberty of the Press, 1830

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/T...oper.Quote.38E6

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"Being in politics is like being a football coach.

You have to be smart enough to understand the game,

and dumb enough to think it's important."

-- Eugene McCarthy

(1916- ) US Congressman (D-Minnesota) & US Senator (D-Minnesota)

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/E...rthy.Quote.C440

 

 

"The difference between a politician and a pickpocket

is that the pickpocket doesn't get indignant

when you tell him to keep his hands to himself."

-- Joseph Sobran

(1946- ) Columnist

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/J...bran.Quote.4046

 

 

"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

(1911-2004) 40th US President

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/R...agan.Quote.40C5