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"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."

Charles de Gaulle on Politics

More quotes about Politics

  • "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

    John F. Kennedy on Politics

  • "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

    Mark Twain on Politics

  • "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

    Plato on Politics

  • "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

    Milton Friedman on Politics

  • "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

    Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Charles de Gaulle

  • "Old age is a shipwreck."

  • "Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

  • "You'll live. Only the best get killed."

  • "It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge."

  • "I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."

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