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Political speeches are like steer horns.  A point
here, a point there, and a lot of bull inbetween.
                -- Alfred E. Neuman

Political television commercials prove one thing: some candidates
can tell all their good points and qualifications in just 30 seconds.

POLITICIAN:
        From the Greek 'poly' ("many") and the French 'tete' ("head" or
        "face," as in 'tete-a-tete': head to head or face to face).
        Hence 'polytetien', a person of two or more faces.
                -- Martin Pitt

Politicians are the same everywhere.  They promise
to build a bridge even where there is no river.
                -- Nikita Khrushchev

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
                -- Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians speak for their parties, and parties never are, never have
been, and never will be wrong.
                -- Walter Dwight

Politics -- the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign
funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
                -- Oscar Ameringer

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and
without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in
for politics.
                -- Albert Camus

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as
dangerous.  In war, you can only be killed once.
                -- Winston Churchill

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
systematic organisation of hatreds.
                -- Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"