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" I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound. "

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" 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. "

Eddie Vedder

Discipline

Politics

Life

" The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. "

" As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York. "

" If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. "

" That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics. "

" I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. "

" I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world. "

" It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. "

" Politics is the one field you don't age out of. "

" A fool and his money are soon elected. "

" 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. "

" 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

Money

Politics

Thought

" It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. "

" It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities. "

" When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed. "

" I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions. "

" The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. "

" Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. "

" One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state. "

" 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. "

" Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. "

" I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. "

" We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. "

" War is the continuation of politics by other means. "

" Voting is a civic sacrament. "

" Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation. "

" I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. "

" Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. "

William O. Douglas

Free

Performance

" I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me. "

" I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns. "