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" A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer! "

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" Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. "

" War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. "

" You have to remember what a super PAC is: a bunch of wealthy donors who want to send a message traditionally other campaigns don't do. This is the problem with the dark money that's involved in politics right now. "

" I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "

" Politics is the one field you don't age out of. "

" I don't think anybody in the entertainment industry or in politics is surprised by the fact that those worlds are rife with promiscuity and irresponsibility - certainly a lack of accountability. "

" If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.' "

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" The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. "

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" The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike. "

" Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason. "

" The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. "

" Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. "

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" I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun. "

" You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing. "

" As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother. "

" This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne. "

" Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. "

" Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens. "

" I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war. "

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" I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. "

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" The fossil fuel industry commands outsize sway over U.S. politics, markets, and democracy. I knew these companies were formidable, but when I served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, I got a close up view of how the industry disregards government safeguards. "

" Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. "

" I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. "

" The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. "

" The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators. "

" The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal. "

" My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test. "

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" I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. "