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" If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

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" You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. "

" I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction. "

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" I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics. "

" Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect. "

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

" If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. "

" The FARC has given up their arms. They are now a political party. They are now doing politics, which is what a peace process was all about. "

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" All politics is local. "

Thomas P. O'Neill

" In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. "

Winston Churchill

" My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.' "

" We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. "

" Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible. "

" Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example. "

John Boyle O'Reilly

" I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along. "

" In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. "

Joseph Chamberlain

" I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party. "

" Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries. "

Kirsten Gillibrand

" Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. "

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

Charles de Gaulle

" We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say. "

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

Clare Boothe Luce

" The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. "

" I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war. "

Enrique Iglesias

" I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn't be in politics, now are saying, 'Oh, wait, I don't need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I'll run, too.' "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. "

" The best politics is no politics. "

Henry M. Jackson

" Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly. "

" Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. "