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" I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics. "

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" The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. "

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" Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. "

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

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" Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. "

" When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose. "

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" I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books. "

" Authentic apology is a tricky thing to pull off in politics, which is why it so seldom occurs. Plausible deniability must be preserved. True contrition has to be displayed. Traitors to the cause must be immediately be jettisoned. Most of all, the goal is to stop the bleeding. "

" Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. "

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" American politics is always an open competition. "

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" I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition. "

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" Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. "

" Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly. "

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" Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.' "

" In politics stupidity is not a handicap. "

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" In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words. "

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

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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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" Technology and the Internet are not just changing politics here in the U.S. It's also happening abroad. In the Philippines, where I grew up, grassroots organizers used text messaging to help overthrow a president. "

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" All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. "

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

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