Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. -

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big. – Theodore Roosevelt

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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Abraham Lincoln – the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War – was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Sometimes in politics, you think youve seen it all. Turns out I was wrong. – Eliot Spitzer

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What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But Ive no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house. – Jon Bon Jovi

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My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election. – Liev Schreiber

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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. – Murray Kempton

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Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether youre playing a tender love story thats set in a coffee shop or whether youre in The Avengers, which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding. – Tom Hiddleston

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