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" Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics. "

John Shelton Reed

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" Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness - but it's nevertheless a politics of outrage, animated by at least a trace of envy. It's as if 'millionaires and billionaires' were the principal problem facing America today. "

" 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. "

" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. "

" I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?' "

" Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that. "

Lamar Alexander

" Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. "

" Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. "

" Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. "

" Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. "

" 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

" It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. "

Winston Churchill

" Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity. "

John Shelton Reed

" I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics. "

" If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. "

" People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. "

" The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. "

" If you believe that America must work for all of us, not just the rich and powerful, if you believe we must reject the politics of fear and division, if you believe we are stronger together, then let's work our hearts out to make Hillary Clinton the next President of the United States! "

Elizabeth Warren

" I would prefer not to be involved in party politics. "

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

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

" 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

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

" And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office. "

" He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" 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

" Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. "

James Russell Lowell

" It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money. "

Alberto Manguel

" The unique thing about our country is that we have Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, and people of all other religions. We have temples and mosques, gurdwaras and churches. But we do not bring all this into politics... This is the difference between India and Pakistan. "

Lal Bahadur Shastri

" 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. "