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Politics Quotes by Ed Koch
- I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war…
- I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
- If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs…
- There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't…
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- 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