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George W. Bush, Jr.
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"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
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Robert Byrne
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"Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least."
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Winston Churchill
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."
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Hillary Clinton
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"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers We are the president."
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Frank Dane
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"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."
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Charles De Gaulle
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"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
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Sam Ewing
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"Political jokes aren't always funny ... too many of them get elected."
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Kim Hubbard
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"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
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"We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate."
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Thomas Jefferson
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"No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it."
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Making a speech on economics is a bit like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you but never to anyone else."
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
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Henry Kissinger
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"Ninty percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name."
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Abraham Lincoln
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"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
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Marshall McLuhan
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"World War Three will be a guerilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation."
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Maureen Murphy
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"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces."
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Alfred E. Neuman
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"Crime does not pay... as well as politics."
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P.J. O'Rourke
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"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs."
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Charles Osgood
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"Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry."
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Lester Pearson
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"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."
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Ross Perot
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"Having to go to war without France is sorta like having to go to war without an accordion."
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Thomas Pickering
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"In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known."
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Ronald Reagan
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"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
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Will Rogers
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"A fool and his money are soon elected."
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Bertrand Russell
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"All movements go too far."
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George Bernard Shaw
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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
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Adlai Stevenson
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"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."
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Mark Twain
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"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."
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Gore Vidal
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"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
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Robbin Williams
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"You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks."
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Steven Wright
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"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
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