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" Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. "

Mikhail Bakunin

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Joseph Chamberlain

" With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold. "

" By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. "

" People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies. "

" What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! "

" Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. "

" I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong. "

" 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. "

Jose Antonio Vargas

" Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism. "

" Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. "

G. M. Trevelyan

" How I'd like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn't even care to know the prime minister's name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me. "

" This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first. "

" It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. "

" Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. "

David Attenborough

" 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. "

" Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. "

" Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate. "

" Finality is not the language of politics. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. "

John F. Kennedy

" I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. "

Vivienne Westwood

" In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Gerhard Schroder

" Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. "

Milton Friedman

" The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. "

Emmeline Pankhurst

" Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. "

" The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. "

Mikhail Bakunin

" Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. "

" Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics. "

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