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When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good — Tony Benn

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results. — John Hamill

Washington is a place where good ideas go to die. — Barack Obama

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. — John Maynard Keynes

Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now] — Adrian Goldsworthy

Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad? — P. J. O'Rourke

The politics, I don't understand it, I'm not happy, don't feel good about it. — Neil Young

Republicans: 'we fought the good fight' - yeah, it woulda been worth it if we could have prevented just one poor kid from getting a free inhaler. — Bill Maher

Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be that way. — Richard Sherman

If you want people to be Good to you then stop being Good to them. — Honeya

Good government is good politics. — Richard J. Daley

Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics; what is scarce is accurate beliefs. — Bryan Caplan

I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have. — George Will

Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA. — Jonah Goldberg

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions. — Hillary Clinton

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes. — David Nicholls

Good politics are often inextricably intertwined. — Mo Udall

Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone. — Charles Sumner

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics. — J. C. Watts

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism. — K. Lee Lerner

It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good. — Leonard Woolf

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. — William Penn

Nothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears. — Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle Of Handsworth

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant. — Samuel Johnson

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics. — Andrew Sullivan

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. — Richard M. Nixon

Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for? — Ito Hirobumi

I've always thought that good politics follows from good economics and good policies. — George Osborne

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good. — Jonah Goldberg

No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy. — Rich Lowry

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song. — Greg Brown

For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself. — Plato

We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now. — Anne Bishop

Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself. — Thomas Jefferson

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. — William E. Simon

Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are. — Judith Flanders

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics. — Jim DeMint

These tanks were like a good rent-a-car. — Janet Reno

Think about the change that the world experiences without the aid of the right people and those who love and appreciate the presence of nature. — Auliq Ice

The good people of a nation always vote a bad leader as a president in Africa — Aboagye Williamson De-graft

The best politics for any president is to be a good president. — Theodore H. White

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill. — Robert Rhodes James

The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader. — Francis Mont

I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do. — Boris Johnson

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. — Plato

I haven't been in politics too long so that's a good thing. — Justin Amash

I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people. — Sam Wyly

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too. — Hillary Clinton

There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree. — Dave Mason

I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics. — James L. Cambias

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary." — Miguel De Cervantes

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems. — Margaret Thatcher

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it. — Hunter S. Thompson

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. — James Russell Lowell

[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124) — Stephen Levine

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics. — John Key

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled — Aristotle.

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one. — Will Rogers

[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican. — Michael Moore

All things merge in one another - good into evil, generosity into justice, religion into politics ... — Thomas Hardy

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. — Walter Lippmann

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen. — Semir Zeki

In order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Freedom isn't the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken. — Brent Weeks

If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam. — Ray Stevens

A good man who did a bad thing. — Mary Matalin

A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented. — Phil Mitchell

I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics. — Gabrielle Giffords

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear — Solon

Forget public service. We all come here with good intentions, but as time passes, it becomes all about self-service and selfish survival. — Congressman X

We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability. — Narendra Modi

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. — P. J. O'Rourke

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. — Rutherford B. Hayes

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men. — Edmund Burke

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory. — Alexis De Tocqueville

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. — Tom Robbins

Why kill good people just to get a bad man? — Loudon Wainwright III

Mary wasn't brilliant.She was a good woman who let her emotions guide her politics. She just couldn't help being for anybody who was agin something. — Murray Morgan

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence ... politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good. — Bernard Crick

It was what made him good at team sports: soccer, basketball, politics. Miller — James S.A. Corey

God bless our good and gracious King,
Whose promise none relies on;
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one. — John Wilmot

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved. — Mark Rutte

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. — Jack Kemp

When asked my advice as I stroll through the town,
"A good lady knows how to take a political assassin down. — Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole. — Jon Meacham

I support the French team - I go to all their matches - but I don't want to use sport for politics. That's not good for sport or for politics. — Francois Hollande

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. — Otto Von Bismarck

Politics and friendships are like oil and water, you need a really good blender to make them work. — Kush Desai

The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government. — Thomas Jefferson

Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics. — Teresa Wright

The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people. — Owen Jones

No ruler can make a people good. — George R R Martin

I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good argument about ideas. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics. — Dambisa Moyo

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished — Clare Boothe Luce

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy. — Jeff Flake

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. — Eliot Spitzer

A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments. — Charles Bukowski