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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

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When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

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There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. ↗

— Robert Peel

#few #least #me #politics #seem

In politics, you must let the other person have your way. ↗

— Claiborne Pell

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everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#politics #society #courage

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do. ↗

— Sonny Perdue

#another #call #going #helping #i

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. ↗

— Tom Peters

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A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

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Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar. ↗

— William Pierce

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The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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