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" If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. "
Nelson Mandela
America
Africa
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" Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection. "
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" It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. "
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" Northeastern conservatism is moderate, accepts the modern welfare state, and dislikes mixing religion with politics. Western conservatism is hawkish, hates government, and embraces individual freedom. Southern conservatism is populist, draws on evangelical Christianity, and plays upon racial resentments. "
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" I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun. "
Newt Gingrich
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" I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on. "
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" From politics, it was an easy step to silence. "
Jane Austen
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" I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics. "
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" If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. "
Nelson Mandela
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" I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here. "
Simon Cowell
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" America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. "
Warren G. Harding
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" Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. "
E. B. White
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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. "
Shehbaz Sharif
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" You do the policy, I'll do the politics. "
Dan Quayle
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" Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. "
Newt Gingrich
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" I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere. "
Robin Coste Lewis
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" I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics. "
Cesar Milstein
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Active
Union
" Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. "
Maynard Jackson
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" 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. "
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" Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do. "
Marianne Williamson
" If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. "
Nelson Mandela
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" We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation. "
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" I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics. "
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" In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. "
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" I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life. "
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" Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity. "
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" Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever. "
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Never
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" Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. "
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