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" A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. "

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" One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. "

Margaret Thatcher

" I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties. "

" Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. "

Otto von Bismarck

" Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.' "

" The secret of getting things done is to act! "

Dante Alighieri

" Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand. "

Andrew Breitbart

" We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. "

" I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life. "

" War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. "

" High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power. "

Joseph Stiglitz

" The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs. "

" Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "

" Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. "

William E. Gladstone

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

" I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics. "

" 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. "

" There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism. "

Walter Cronkite

" Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. "

" 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. "

" Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared. "

" The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life. "

" I deeply believe - and not just as a matter of politics, but even as a matter of morality - that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. And the last thing we need is government intruding into those personal decisions. "

" 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. "

" Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor. "

" What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! "

" I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere. "

Robin Coste Lewis

" He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. "

" Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics. "

" Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics. "