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" Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nothing
Stand
Politics
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" There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing. "
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" I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific. "
Jacqueline Bisset
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" Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. "
Charles Krauthammer
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" 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. "
Norm MacDonald
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" Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians. "
Fletcher Knebel
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" Government serves Christ's kingdom rule; this is its purpose. And Christians' purpose in politics should be to advance the kingdom of God - to make it more real, more tangible, more present. "
Josh Hawley
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" I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined. "
Bob Geldof
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" As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother. "
Benazir Bhutto
Growth
Leadership
Mother
" Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine. "
Paul Wellstone
Hope
Dare
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" Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics. "
Bill Gates
Always
You
Want
" The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. "
Thomas Sowell
Lesson
Enough
Politics
" I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. "
Margaret Thatcher
Good
Good And Evil
I Am
" But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money. "
Imran Khan
Way
Need
Politics
" When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. "
Clarence Darrow
Beginning
Believe
Boy
" It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. "
Khaleda Zia
Politics
Impossible
Patience
" These political consultants love business guys who've never been in politics to try and take advantage of them. I get that. "
Bruce Rauner
Politics
Try
Business
" Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort. "
P. J. O'Rourke
God
Done
Way
" Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. "
John F. Kennedy
Football
You
See
" It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. "
Robert Redford
Honor
Things
Soul
" You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history. "
David Mamet
People
Politics
Government
" I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
Will
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I Can
" What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. "
David Lloyd George
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" A week is a long time in politics. "
Harold Wilson
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" 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. "
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Culture
Law
People
" The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. "
H. L. Mencken
Aim
Safety
Practical
" Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate. "
Greg Gutfeld
Angry
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" When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight. "
Marianne Williamson
" Authentic apology is a tricky thing to pull off in politics, which is why it so seldom occurs. Plausible deniability must be preserved. True contrition has to be displayed. Traitors to the cause must be immediately be jettisoned. Most of all, the goal is to stop the bleeding. "
Gwen Ifill
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Goal
Apology
" Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Politics
Without
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" Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism. "
Walter Gropius
Power
Made
Art