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" And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery. "

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" Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. "

" The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. "

" I wish I was less good-looking and more unpopular. Then I could get into politics and use my pent-up resentment about being ugly and unpopular to systematically destroy the country. "

" It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom. "

" 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. "

" I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire. "

" Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.' "

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

" 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. "

" My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. "

" 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. "

" I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. "

Christopher Hitchens

" I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. "

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" Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business. "

" In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. "

" People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. "

" Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality. "

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" War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. "

" I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. "

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" I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others. "

" In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. "

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" Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it. "

" I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. "

Winston Churchill

" If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents. "

" If someone uses the uniform, whatever uniform, for partisan politics, I am disappointed because I think it does erode that bond of trust we have with the American people. "

" The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich. "

" There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal. "

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" Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. "

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