{"id":1474,"date":"2011-01-11T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2011-01-11T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T14:32:00","slug":"more-quotes-on-politics-and-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"More quotes on politics and politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">A government is not in power, it is in office, put there by the will of the people. \u2013 Stanley Baldwin<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests. \u2013 Aneurin Bevan<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics. \u2013 Albert Camus<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who&#8217;s been dead for 15 years. &#8211; Harry S. Truman<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. &#8211; Texas Guinan<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. \u2013 Vera Brittain<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Party loyalty lowers the greatest of men to the petty level of the masses. \u2013 Jean de la Bruyere<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">He serves his party best who serves the country best. \u2013 Rutherford B. Haynes <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. \u2013 Gilbert K. Chesterton<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">It may be true that you can&#8217;t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. \u2013 William Durant <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A government is not in power, it is in office, put there by the will of the people. \u2013 Stanley Baldwin I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. 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