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

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

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Honesty in politics is much like oxygen...The higher up you go, the scarcer it becomes.

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The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘tics’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.

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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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