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" Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. "

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" The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators. "

" I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties. "

" What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. "

" 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. "

" I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. "

" Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. "

" I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. "

" A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. "

" The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people. "

" 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. "

" I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics. "

" Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. "

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

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

" In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. "

" Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. "

" There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. "

" I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office. "

" 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. "

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" Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. "

" I've learned a lot about what kind of actor I want or do not want to be while being on set. I sit back and observe how other actors treat the totem pole of set politics. "

" You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. "

" For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. "

" I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong. "

" Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life. "

" I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics. "

" I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. "

" We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say. "

" Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. "