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Politics Quotes by Margaret Thatcher
- There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft…
- We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.
- It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know, but are mistaken,…
- As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky one remarked -- referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omlette without breaking…
- It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international…
- First you win the argument, then you win the vote.
- There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
- One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
- If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
- I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not…
- I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
- Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
- I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
- Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
- There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
- When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
- There are no personal sympathies in politics.
- In politics, if you want anything said ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
- It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that…
- If...many influential people have failed to understand , or have just forgotten, what were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it,…
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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