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" A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. "

William Randolph

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" You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world. "

" The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee. "

" I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound. "

" Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. "

" A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. "

" In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. "

Joseph Chamberlain

" I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "

" Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. "

" I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration. "

" In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. "

" It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. "

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

" Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something! "

" We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this. "

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

" The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists. "

" Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "

Charles de Gaulle

" Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible. "

" Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. "

" Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. "

George Jean Nathan

" Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. "

Winston Churchill

" Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. "

" It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. "

" Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. "

" There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics. "