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" Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. "

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" 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. "

" Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good. "

" In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. "

Charles de Gaulle

" 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. "

" I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party. "

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

" A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism. "

Walter Cronkite

" Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions. "

" I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. "

" Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics. "

" If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? "

" The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" It's easy to make a cue last a lifetime. Don't boil it or freeze it in the trunk of a car. Don't lean it against a wall for years. If you lose a game to a complete idiot, hit the edge of the table in anger with something other than your cue. "

" Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. "

" It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. "

" The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.' "

" Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality. "

Marianne Williamson

" Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. "

" There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. "

" Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. "

" Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do. "

" I quit politics because I hated it. "

" Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. "

" 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. "

" Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. "

" The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless. "

Frank Lautenberg

" We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us. "