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Abraham Lincoln
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Adlai E. Stevenson
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Aesop
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Albert Einstein
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Alexis de Tocqueville
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alfred E. Wiggam
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary,1911
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Andr? Malraux
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
Author Unknown
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
Author Unknown
George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.
Author Unknown
Don't vote, it only encourages them.
Author Unknown
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
Author Unknown
Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
Author Unknown
How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?
Author Unknown
During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa.
Author Unknown
The Christian Right is neither.
Carl Sandburg
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
 
 
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