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«It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.»
Author: Bob Geldof | About: Hunger, Politics | Keywords: governor, spare
«It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.»
Author: Eugene J. McCarthy (Senator) | About: Politics | Keywords: candidate
«It will be interesting to see how she reconciles her rhetoric of 2004, when she said that the election (for governor) was all about experience, when in this race, she's at a decided experience disadvantage.»
«It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else»
Author: Kwame Nkrumah (President) | About: Government, Politics | Keywords: misgovern
«It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention»
«I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.»
«It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy | About: Politics | Keywords: erase
«It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.»
«It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them»
«It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.»