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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
-Bernard Baruch
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Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-Bernard Baruch
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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.
-Jean Baudrillard
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
-Jean Baudrillard
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
-Jean Baudrillard
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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
-Tony Benn
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
-Tony Benn
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I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris.
-Tony Benn
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
-John Berger
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Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.
-Yogi Berra
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Politics is a blood sport.
-Aneurin Bevan
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
-Aneurin Bevan
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable...the art of the next best.
-Otto von Bismarck, Remark to Prince Meyer von Waldeck, August 11, 1867
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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
-William Blake
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
-Henry Bolingbroke
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.
-David Borenstein, On the politics of the 1990's
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I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
-George Borrow
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Not everyone is attracted to politics
-David Botter
Politicians and What They Do, 1960
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-Don Boudreaux
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Books about Politics
