"The movies were custard compared to politics."
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"A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out."
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"Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code."
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"Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances."
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"In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it."
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"For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion."
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"A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness."
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"To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable."
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"Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power."
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"Politics is not an exact science."
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"Political work is the life-blood of all economic work."
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"This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty."
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"I got politics and economics moving and then others took over."
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"We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class."
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"Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman."
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"Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good."
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"As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman."
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"One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one."
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"How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician."
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"What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?"
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