Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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In politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

 1171

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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

 1175

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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

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Good leaders are like baseball umpires; they go practically unnoticed when doing their jobs right.

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