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" Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. "

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" My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics. "

" It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. "

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" I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. "

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" The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

" I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward. "

" 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

" We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires and billionaires who can give unlimited and undisclosed amounts of money to influence our elections. "

" 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. "

" I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. "

Winston Churchill

" As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. "

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

" Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. "

" People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. "

" Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining. "

" 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

" You do the policy, I'll do the politics. "

" Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff. "

" I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. "

Christopher Hitchens

" The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. "

" One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. "

" All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. "

" Populist promises to reverse every tough decision are nothing but empty rhetoric, irresponsible leadership, and bad politics. They are not the solution to Ireland's problems. "

" If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies. "

" If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that. "

" I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. "