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" I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics. "

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" A lot of times, politics, global issues are very black and white. There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints, open for interpretations. "

Black And White

" The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. "

" The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. "

Christopher Hitchens

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

Emmeline Pankhurst

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

" In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time. "

Malala Yousafzai

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

" 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. "

" When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. "

" I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. "

Walter Savage Landor

" In politics stupidity is not a handicap. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. "

" Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. "

Lady Bird Johnson

" I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in. "

" Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR. "

Professionalism

" Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. "

" If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents. "

" The ballot is stronger than the bullet. "

Abraham Lincoln

" When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight. "

Marianne Williamson

" I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties. "

" Everything is politics. "

" Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics. "

" What we see before us is a politics devoid of kindness and truth... today, politics is not being used in the service of the people: it is being used to crush them, not to lift them up. "

" The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. "

" 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. "

" Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics. "