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

John W. Gardner

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" What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Politics is the one field you don't age out of. "

" We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy. "

" Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.' "

Joseph Stiglitz

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

" I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit. "

Ethan Zuckerman

" 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. "

" Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. "

Winston Churchill

" A fool and his money are soon elected. "

" Trauma and sexual abuse are two of our most pressing human and societal problems. They must be studied by unbiased scientific investigation rather than polarized by hysteria and politics. "

Peter A. Levine

" 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. "

" The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee. "

" I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation. "

" I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar. "

" I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice. "

" Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. "

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

" If someone uses the uniform, whatever uniform, for partisan politics, I am disappointed because I think it does erode that bond of trust we have with the American people. "

" This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first. "

" Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. "

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

" The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience. "

" Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. "

John W. Gardner

" There are no friends at cards or world politics. "

Finley Peter Dunne

" The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. "

" When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost. "

Patrick Lencioni

" King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" There is no gambling like politics. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. "