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Political Quotes by Samantha Power
- Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
- In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
- I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up…
- Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military…
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- 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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