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" I want to point out, there are a lot of politicians who enjoy the political end of politics, but they're not interested in governance. And then, there are some that are really interested in governance and are just terrible at politics. "

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Eddie Vedder

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World

Rock

" I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. "

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

David Ignatius

Mean

Story

" I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person. "

" Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all presiding officers and reading clerks can spit out the formulaic incantations of parliamentary procedure. "

" I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific. "

" Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop? "

" To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. "

" I'm happy to be called a liberal. "

Molly Ivins

Happy

Liberal

" Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state if you hunted from Jonesboro to El Dorado. "

" We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind. "

" The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. "

" When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up my version of the disease. It said that I had about a 5 percent chance of survival. I said, 'Gosh, well, it's been a good run.' What I didn't realize is that in the two years since those books were published, things had shifted dramatically. "

" The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics. "

Shimon Peres

Middle

Politics

" In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. "

" The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs. "

P. J. O'Rourke

Politics

Best

" Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad? "

" The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. "

" Politics and ethics belong to different worlds. "

" I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy. "

" Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it. "

Jack Germond

Politics

Way

" We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires and billionaires who can give unlimited and undisclosed amounts of money to influence our elections. "

" Rush Limbaugh's pathetic abuse of logic, his absurd pomposity, his relentless self-promotion, his ridiculous ego - now those, friends, are appropriate targets for satire. "

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

" I left the 'Trib' in 1970 with the feeling that I would never have a career in establishment media of any kind. "

" Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion. "

" I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. "

" When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. "

" 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. "

" People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' "