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" I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

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" We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics. "

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" After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. "

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" One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. "

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" When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight. "

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" At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. "

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" Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. "

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" Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. "

" I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties. "

" When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality. "

" The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes. "

" I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.' "

" I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it. "

" No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles. "

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" Never give up on anybody. "

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" The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. "

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

Walter Cronkite

" 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. "

" I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere. "

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" The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. "

" Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. "

" When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics. "

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

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" I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics. "

" Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.' "

" I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics. "

" It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom. "

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