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Politics Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld
- Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
- First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you…
- In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
- Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually…
- When someone with a rural accent says, I don't know much about politics, zip up your pockets.
- If a person with a rural accent says 'I don't know much about politics,' zip your pocket.
- Control your time. If you're working off your in-box, you're working off the priorities of others. Be sure the staff is working on what you…
- Don't begin to think you're the President. You're not. The Constitution provides for only one.
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — 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
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle