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" Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. "

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" I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals. "

" The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people. "

" I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me. "

Marianne Williamson

" Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that. "

Lamar Alexander

" Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. "

" Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. "

" 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 am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me. "

Mamata Banerjee

" Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well. "

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" The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. "

" 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

" You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. "

" Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. "

" There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics. "

" When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality. "

" Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man. "

" Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop? "

" The unique thing about our country is that we have Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, and people of all other religions. We have temples and mosques, gurdwaras and churches. But we do not bring all this into politics... This is the difference between India and Pakistan. "

Lal Bahadur Shastri

" It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money. "

Alberto Manguel

" 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. "

Enrique Iglesias

" America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. "

Warren G. Harding

" Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared. "

" Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. "

" People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music. "

" The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. "

Eldridge Cleaver

" Space has always been confusing to politics. "

" Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "

" I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics. "

" I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt. "

" If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. "

William Tecumseh Sherman