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" All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us. "

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" It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. "

" One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state. "

" Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics. "

" I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world. "

" A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. "

" Space has always been confusing to politics. "

" I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. "

" Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions. "

" I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation. "

" 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. "

" Feminists must denounce the use of white insecurity - whether in relation to white womanhood, white neighborhoods, white politics, or white wealth - to justify the brutal assaults against black people of all genders. "

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

" How I'd like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn't even care to know the prime minister's name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me. "

" 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

" We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. "

" Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. "

" Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act. "

" I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on. "

" This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first. "

" People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. "

" The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. "

" If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit. "

Ethan Zuckerman

" It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris. "

Madeleine M. Kunin

" The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience. "

" Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. "

" Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff. "

" Without alienation, there can be no politics. "

" In Pakistan politics is hereditary. "

" In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. "

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