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" Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. "

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" We must act in unison and rising above politics on the question of development of the country and empowerment of the youth to raise them as future leader in every field of our national life. "

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" Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters. "

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" Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker. "

" I quit politics because I hated it. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" When the Founding Fathers arrived here in Philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn't come as Democrats or Republicans or to nominate a presidential candidate. They came as patriots who feared party politics. "

Michael Bloomberg

" Politics ruins the character. "

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" Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. "

" The politics of judges is getting to be red hot. "

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Lal Bahadur Shastri

" 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. "

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" War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. "

" I own and operate a ferocious ego. "

" Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that. "

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" Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state. "

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Michael Eric Dyson

" He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. "

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

" Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process. "

" People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music. "

" What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives. "