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Political Quotes by Molly Ivins
- In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.
- Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
- Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.
- Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or communists,…
- It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in…
- As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you…
- Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
- The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
More Political Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle