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

Arthur C. Clarke

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" Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics. "

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" And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office. "

" Politics makes strange bedfellows. "

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" It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. "

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" The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. "

" The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. "

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" Liberalism is Rationalism in politics. "

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" Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect. "

" Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining. "

" In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' "

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

" I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in. "

" 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. "

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" Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. "

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" Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor. "

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

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

Margaret Thatcher

" There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives? "

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" A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. "

" If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that. "

" Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. "

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" In politics nothing is contemptible. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" 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. "

" All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics. "

" I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. "

" 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. "

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