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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Christian Nestell Bovee
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Born:
Feb 22
,
1820
Died:
Jan 18
,
1904
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,
Merit
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Like
,
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,
Being
,
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,
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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
Politics
Future
Blame
Responsibility
Past
Own
Our
Seek
Democratic
Accept
Answer
Fix
Republican
Us
Let Us
Right
Right Answer
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
Barack Obama
Politics
Faith
Religion
Respect
People
World
Strong
Political
Matter
Diversity
Understanding
Every
Our
Way
Respects
Correctness
Openness
Because
Makes
Political Correctness
Arsenal
Targets
Any
Just
Race
Us
Reject
Need
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson
Friendship
Politics
Religion
Cause
Considered
Philosophy
Never
Withdrawing
Opinion
Friend
Difference
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell
Politics
Age
Political
Hatred
Schizophrenia
Our
Out
Lies
Folly
Mass
Issues
Political Issues
Itself
Keeping
Thing
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
Politics
You
Penalties
Participate
Governed
End
Up
Inferiors
Being
Refusing
Your
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Politics
Safety
Aim
Menacing
Practical
Led
Endless
Them
Populace
Whole
Series
Keep
Hence
Imaginary
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
Politics
Government
Jokes
Facts
Make
Report
Just
Watch
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Politics
Stupidity
Handicap
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain
Politics
Except
Force
Principles
Real
Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.
Jon Katz
Politics
Day
Religion
Technology
Culture
Every Day
Dog
Ugly
Animals
Depend
Live
Every
Fragmented
Our
Our Lives
One Thing
Struggling
Cat
Unconditionally
Come
Economy
Faithfully
Disconnected
Very
Unfortunate
Loving
Mean
Us
Much
Lives
Thing
Stressful
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