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Gilbert Highet

"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?"

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"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?"

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

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"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."

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"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

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"Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments."

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"We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes."

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"There is no gambling like politics."

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"A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill."

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"Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!"

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"Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics."

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"Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics."

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"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?"
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