Quote by Walter Lippmann
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to a

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. – Walter Lippmann

Other quotes by Walter Lippmann

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. – Walter Lippmann

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Intelligence
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. – Walter Lippmann

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Business
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. – Walter Lippmann

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Government
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I… grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party. – Harvey Weinstein

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I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesnt work in the summer though. I dont have the right clothes. – Alexei Sayle

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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. – Abba Eban

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This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne. – John Podhoretz

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Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks. – Duchess Abrantes

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And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them. – Helen Rowland

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