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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does: Russia.

Quote by Robert Frost about politics, country, contentment

There are no friends in politics, just political friends.

Quote by Titu Liviu Maiorescu about politics

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli about politics, intelligence, man

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Quote by Mel Brooks about politics, country

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

Quote by June Jordan about language, lie, habits, law, self-control, writing, contentment

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Quote by June Jordan about poetry, truth

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

Quote by June Jordan about truth, value, love

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Quote by Herbert George Wells about politics, joke

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Quote by Georges Jacques Danton about politics, authority

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Quote by Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin about politics, water

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Quote by Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin about politics, revolution, contentment

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Quote by Mary Shelley about politics, good, good luck

Good council has no price.

Quote by Giuseppe Mazzini about politics, good, good luck

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

Quote by James Tobin about economy, disaster, depression

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Quote by Andrew Fletcher about money, concentration, power, public

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Quote by Rebecca West about politics, knowledge

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

Quote by Margaret Thatcher about politics, being, contentment

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine about politics, people

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Quote by Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi about opinion, saints, woman

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Quote by Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre about politics, secret, people