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Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures that they're writing about. It's a sad state of affairs, but there's probably more veracity of reporting in my work than there is in the newspapers.

A one-hour work-week...would minimize the damage that Congress can do.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.

A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.

A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

A political action committee trying to raise money for a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign is selling “Ready for Hillary” champagne glasses and Christmas ornaments. Because if one thing improves the holidays, it's drinking mixed with politics.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

A political leader worthy of assassination

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.

A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such.

A politician can do what he thinks is right, he just has to be sophisticated in how he goes about it. Those who seek a president who 'will disregard the polls and just lead,' ask for the political equivalent of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade.'

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

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.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

Approaching any movie with a three in the title you know you are not going to get a political polemic. You are not going to get some sort of political statement or ultra-deep message.

A precedent embalms a principle.

A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy. (pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy")

A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the church hierarchy otherwise. But after he began voicing critical remarks about the war and concerned comments about the poor, he was assassinated.

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.