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" I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. "

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" I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others. "

" 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. "

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" Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. "

" The ballot is stronger than the bullet. "

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" The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. "

" War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. "

" The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. "

" Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. "

" 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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" Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life. "

" People in politics always say they're spending time with their family, but in my case, it's a big family. We got 23 grandkids, so I get to spend a lotta time with them, and it's extraordinarily enjoyable. "

" I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever. "

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" If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. "

" This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne. "

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