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" Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. "
Gore Vidal
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Politics
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" It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. "
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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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" In modern politics, polls often serve as the canary in the mine - an early warning signal of danger or trends. But polls can also be used to wag the dog - diverting attention from something significant. "
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" Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. "
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" I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals. "
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" Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney. "
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" The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied. "
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" I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. "
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" You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. "
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" I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics. "
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" I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. "
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" Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. "
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" In politics nothing is contemptible. "
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" McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject. "
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" Politics and power is a realm of relative influence. "
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" Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it. "
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" Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. "
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" When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think. "
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" In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba. "
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" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. "
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" Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. "
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" Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. "
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" Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction. "
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" Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. "
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" I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch. "
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