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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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Amber Hurdle

"The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ['The grass was greener over there']"

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Amber Hurdle

"Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room."

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Amber Hurdle

"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

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"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

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"Being political doesn't only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election, to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers."

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"The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent."

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"The name of the regime where media is on the side of the government is undoubtedly fascism, a regime of the sick minds where freedoms are drowned in the cold waters of oppressions!"

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Amber Hurdle

"There are some ignorant and immoral politicians, the more they win the elections the more their countries lose! Their victory always results in the defeat and the collapse of the whole country!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Important decisions that will affect a nation's fate or humanity's fate cannot be left to the referendums! Because such decisions require good knowledge of history, they require a sound reason and a powerful logic and masses often do not have such characteristics!"

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Amber Hurdle

"May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!"

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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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