As I write this piece, political parties and their candidates are bracing themselves for Super Tuesday's showdown, a day when the greatest number of states hold primary elections to select delegates to the national conventions at which each party's presidential candidates are officially nominated. Considering all the candidates-Obama and Clinton for the Democrats; Romney and McCain for the Republican Party-and taking into account the issues and values that they represent, Super Tuesday's showdown is both exciting and apprehending.
As Super Tuesday approaches, I like to pause and ponder what politics is all about. And to do this, I've gathered 10 Famous Quotes on Politics from the inspiring pen of ten famous writers.
1. Marcus Porcius Cato on our civic responsibility:
"Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government,-a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed."2. Clarke, James F. Clarke on the difference between a politician and a statesman:
"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.-A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country.-The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift."3. Benjamin Disraeli on the uncertainty of political life:
"There is no gambling like politics."4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on political experience and knowledge:
"I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people."5. Rutherford B. Hayes on political party and service:
"He serves his party best who serves the country best."6. William Bennett Munro on political change:
"People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something."7. O'Connell, Daniel O'Connell on politics and morality:
"Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong."8. Max O'Rell on political motives:
"To be a chemist you must study chemistry; to be a lawyer or a physician you must study law or medicine; but to be a politician you need only to study your own interests."9. Jonathan Swift on political qualifications:
"The man who can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, grow on the spot where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and render more essential service to the country, than the whole race of politicians put together."10. Edwin Percy Whipple on doing what is right:
"A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.-You cannot, by tying an opinion to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead, nor the wounded, but among the missing."
Whether you agree with the above quotes or not, it, nevertheless, offer us some things to ponder upon. My wish is that whoever wins the primary election in their respective party and eventually becomes the president of the United States that he or she will serve with the interest of the people at heart, thus making the United States and the world a better place.
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