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" I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. "

Gerhard Schroder

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

" Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. "

Thomas Jefferson

" There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal. "

Condoleezza Rice

" I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. "

" Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better. "

Atifete Jahjaga

" Everything is politics. "

" I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here. "

" It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. "

" Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance. "

" When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. "

" The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators. "

" I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. "

Vivienne Westwood

" Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for. "

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

" Next, we will create a modern immigration law. "

Gerhard Schroder

" Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality. "

Marianne Williamson

" Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. "

" Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example. "

John Boyle O'Reilly

" Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. "

John Stuart Mill

" When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. "

Maggie Gallagher

" We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism. "

Walter Cronkite

" It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball. "

" There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" We must act in unison and rising above politics on the question of development of the country and empowerment of the youth to raise them as future leader in every field of our national life. "

" The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics. "

" Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. "

" If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies. "

" Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional. "