Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
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Political Will
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Aesop
Fabulist
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
Mao Zedong
Politician, Revolutionary
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
Kofi Annan
Diplomat, Politician
"We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will."
Leon Trotsky
Revolutionary, Politician
"Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties."
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"Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource."
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"The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play)."
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"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."
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"What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement."
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"I really feel that political will is born out of popular will."
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"Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so."
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"Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose."
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"Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor."
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"We need the political will, and that often comes from the will of the people. So if celebrities or personalities can help to educate the people - not influence them, not tell them (what to do) - just tell them the truth about what's happening and let them form their own opinion, that will strengthen them and they will push their politicians."
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