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" As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them. "

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" All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. "

Walter Cronkite

" My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters. "

Mario Vargas Llosa

" King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record. "

" Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. "

Henry Kissinger

" Politics for me started in violence. "

" Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. "

John F. Kennedy

" In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them. "

" A political party is about an ideology. And I don't think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political party. "

" Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics. "

" Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. "

" I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. "

" The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes. "

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

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

" Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. "

Grover Cleveland

" I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president. "

Hillary Clinton

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

" What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives. "

" Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities as part of its broader goal of creating new subjects wedded to consumerism, risk-free relationships, and the destruction of the social state. "

" There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics. "

" I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

" The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. "

" One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. "

Thomas Friedman

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

" Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down. "

" The FARC has given up their arms. They are now a political party. They are now doing politics, which is what a peace process was all about. "

Juan Manuel Santos

" 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. "