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It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security. — Paul Kagame

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. — Condoleezza Rice

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history. — Vincent Bugliosi

In America, the Federal Constitution has endured as the most sagacious conservative document in political history — Russell Kirk

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse. — Henry Morgenthau Jr.

I followed lectures on the history, geography, economy and political organization of Sweden. — Christian De Duve

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush. — George Soros

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people. — Dave Grohl

Political science came into being as alchemy was being discredited, although history has since proved that alchemy had a better record. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society. — Claudio Hummes

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond De Goncourt

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. — John Stuart Mill

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. — Jill Lepore

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. — Juan Antonio Samaranch

History, in other words, provides little indication, let alone assurance, that political success is a prerequisite of upward mobility. — Jason L. Riley

Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense. — J. Christopher Herold

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas. — Leo Strauss

We're in a political depression - a great political depression — Chuck Todd

...environment scarcely recognises a political frontier. — T.C. Smout

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history. — Otto Von Bismarck

That is not merely a central tragedy of human existence: It is also the political history of the world. — Dean Koontz

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened. — T. F. Tout

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom. — Jean Bodin

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature. — Gustavo Gutierrez

When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit. — Douglas Brinkley

The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah. — Karen Elliott House

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization. — Christopher Hitchens

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history. — Marco Rubio

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition. — Henry A. Kissinger

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. — John Kenneth Galbraith

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom. — Edward Gibbon

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. — Terry Eagleton

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends. — Karl Marx

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined. — Leopold Von Ranke

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction. — W. H. Auden

In spite of its poverty, its political upheavals, its lack of resources, Haiti is not a peripheral place. Its history has made it a center. — Yanick Lahens

History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. — Robert Higgs

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. — Thomas Merton

It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century. — John McCain

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. — William Kristol

I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history. — David Mandel

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents. — C.V. Wedgwood

I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to twelve-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt. — Umberto Eco

The ascension of Jesus was the supreme political event of world history. He ascended not so much — R.C. Sproul

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in. — John Pugsley

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories. — Duff Goldman

Geography should be the ultimate deciding factor for every political dilemma for proximity to an ailing land is bound to result in one's infection. — Aysha Taryam

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history. — John McCain

Vindication is the privilege of the victorious — Jelle Peters

The National Federation of Republican Women has a long history of helping bring women into the political process while promoting the Republican cause. — Laura Bush

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened. — Peggy Noonan

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. — Eric Alterman

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history. — Nina Easton

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history. — Fatos Nano

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem. — Vladimir Lenin

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history. — Robert Dallek

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history. — David Price

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it — Aneurin Bevan

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. — Alfred De Vigny

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom. — Vishal Mangalwadi

What each of us perceives and acts upon as true has much to do with our situation, social, political, cultural, religious, or philosophical. — Elaine Pagels

History teaches us
that men and nations
only behave wisely
once they have exhausted
all other alternatives.
— Abba Eban

History only suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. — Milton Friedman

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing. — Anselm Kiefer

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite. — H.L. Mencken

Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history "philosophy taught with examples. — David McCullough

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. — Joe Biden

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes — Murray Edelman

We can and we must build the political power to change the course of history - our survival depends on it. — Wenonah Hauter

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power. — Livy

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible. — Francis Parker Yockey

History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

I am predominantly critical concerning the activities, and especially the political activities, through history of the official clergy. — Albert Einstein