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- Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
- All war aims for impunity.
- America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark…
- All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really…
- I may have come into politics with an unacknowledged condescension toward the game and the people who played it, but I left with more respect…
- When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political…
- Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.
- There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide