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Kim Campbell, the first female prime minister of Canada, was right when she said a 47-day-long election campaign (Imagine a campaign of only 47 days!) was not enough time to reconsider the nation’s social programs. But she was wrong to say so.
[Of two fellow congressmen] They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
It’s 90 per cent of the politicians who give the other 10 per cent a bad name.
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.
[Of political life] The hatreds which sound so real when you read the words, which look so true when you see their scornful attitudes
Those who exercise power and determine policy are generally men whose minds have been formed by events twenty or thirty years before.
Finality is not the language of politics.
Men on white horses armed with simple solutions are the answer when people decide they’ve had enough of “politics as usual.”
‘Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?’ ‘No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country’
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
