Quote by Eric Sevareid
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The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something. – Eric Sevareid

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Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. – Eric Sevareid

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Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. – Eric Sevareid

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What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. – Estelle Morris

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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. – Adlai Stevenson

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I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions. – Muqtada al Sadr

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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. – John le Carre

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Im in politics. Im in government, so nothing surprises me. – Andrew Cuomo

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What we know of other peoples only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Assent — and you are sane — , demur — youre straightway dangerous — , and handled with a Chain — . – Emily Dickinson

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It was a very lonely spirit that looked out from underneath those shaggy brows and comprehended men without fully communing with them, as if in spite of all its genial efforts at comradeship, it dwelt apart, saw its visions of duty where no man looked on. – Woodrow Wilson

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