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

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" Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. "

" I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. "

" Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process. "

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

" I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun. "

" I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "

Charles de Gaulle

" If you believe that America must work for all of us, not just the rich and powerful, if you believe we must reject the politics of fear and division, if you believe we are stronger together, then let's work our hearts out to make Hillary Clinton the next President of the United States! "

Elizabeth Warren

" In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. "

" Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win. "

" If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. "

" In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. "

" Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations. "

" Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. "

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

" In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba. "

" A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics. "

" It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. "

" Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate. "

" Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it. "

Marianne Williamson

" I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. "

Adlai E. Stevenson

" Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all. "

" Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" We're not a democracy. "

" The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. "

Emmeline Pankhurst

" I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. "

" Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully. "

" The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. "

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" Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. "