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" I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election. "

Pervez Musharraf

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" 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

" 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. "

" I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. "

" Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics. "

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

" The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life. "

" Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country. "

Doing The Right Thing

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

" I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent. "

Andrew Breitbart

" If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. "

" My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters. "

Mario Vargas Llosa

" Government serves Christ's kingdom rule; this is its purpose. And Christians' purpose in politics should be to advance the kingdom of God - to make it more real, more tangible, more present. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. "

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

" Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. "

Milton Friedman

" We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. "

" Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. "

" At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening. "

Jose Antonio Vargas

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

Arthur C. Clarke

" I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean. "

" War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. "

" You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. "

" A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. "

" You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job. "

Thomas P. O'Neill