Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 February 1900
CountryUnited States of America
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We mean by ''politics'' the people's business - the most important business there is.
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He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
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You know, you really can't beat a household commodity-the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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You are in the courtroom of world opinion. You have denied they exist, and I want to know if I understood you correctly. I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room!
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We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.