QUOTES ON POLITICS AND ELECTIONS

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Quote of the month

• «Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother». (Robert Carlyle Byrd, b.1917, US Senator)

Previous quotations

2007

• «Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things». (Peter Drucker, 1909 - 2005)

• «Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.». (Will Rogers , American entertainer, 1879-1935)

2006

• «Today US politics is dominated by business methods, as political parties have virtually ceased to exist, campaigns have become personalised and, because of the cost of advertising, money plays an ever greater role. The distinction between voter and consumer - and between democracy and the market - has been obliterated». (Serge Halimi, Le Monde diplomatique, August 1999)

• «Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important». (Eugene McCarthy, US politician)

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