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Politics is
just like show business. You have a hell of an opening,
coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
-- Ronald Reagan
1911-, Fortieth President of
the USA, Actor
It has been
said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have
learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
-- Ronald Reagan
1911-, Fortieth President of
the USA, Actor
Politics is
not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards,
if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
-- Ronald Reagan
1911-, Fortieth President of
the USA, Actor
We assume that
politicians are without honor. We read their statements
trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics:
not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do
so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to
be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in
the political lie.
-- Adrienne Rich
1929-, American Poet
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There is an
increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of
futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell
game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze,
inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
-- Elliot Richardson
People start
parades -- politicians just get out in front and act like
they're leading.
-- Dana Gillman Rinehart
What in fact
takes place in an election is that two hand picked
candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each
candidate having been selected by a very small group of
politically active people. A minority of the people... then
elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and
the majority.
-- Robert J. Ringer
American Writer
In politics a
straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.
-- John P. Roche
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