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A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of th

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. – James Freeman Clarke, Sermon

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If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. – Meg Greenfield

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Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. – Benjamin Lichtenberg

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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. – Richard Armour

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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right. – H.L. Mencken, 1956

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