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"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."
Ambrose Bierce
"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority."
Jesse Jackson
"Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy."
Dwight Eisenhower
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."
T.S. Eliot
"When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it."
GK Chesterton
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
Robert Frost
"Man is by nature a political animal."
Aristotle
"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
Henry Kissinger
"In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table."
H.G. Wells
"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order."
Dwight Eisenhower
"It is our true policy to steer clear of any permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."
George Washington
"It takes a long time to turn a big country around."
Bill Clinton
"The White House: I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the prison system."
Bill Clinton
"There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly."
Dwight Eisenhower
"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism."
Ronald Reagan
"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."
Thomas Sowell
"It is the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism- Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people."
Ronald Reagan
"One thing I have learned about the presidency is that whatever shortcomings you have, people are going to notice them -- and whatever strengths you have, you're going to need them."
George W. Bush
"The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize."
Saul Bellow
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