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" I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people. "

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" People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. "

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" Hope springs eternal, even in politics. "

" 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. "

" Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. "

" Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. "

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" In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. "

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" I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. "

" 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. "

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" If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. "

" The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. "

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

" I like American history. "

" Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. "

" A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer! "

" So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. "

" When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change. "

" I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for two teams. "

" I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics. "

" There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. "

" I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. "

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" The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. "

" Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "

" 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. "

" It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. "

" Politics and ethics belong to different worlds. "