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" In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. "

Alexander Hamilton

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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. "

Condoleezza Rice

" My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. "

" A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. "

Alexander Hamilton

" Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. "

" The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961. "

" I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. "

Albert Einstein

" We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this. "

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

" Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life. "

Christopher Buckley

" I quit politics because I hated it. "

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

Hunter S. Thompson

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

" India has never played politics with national security. "

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

" Politics ruins the character. "

Otto von Bismarck

" A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. "

" It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. "

" Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. "

" The world is governed by opinion. "

William Ellery Channing

" One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless. "

Frank Lautenberg

" I don't think anybody in the entertainment industry or in politics is surprised by the fact that those worlds are rife with promiscuity and irresponsibility - certainly a lack of accountability. "

" 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. "

Jacqueline Bisset

" The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. "

Dante Alighieri

" I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar. "

" Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. "

Pope John Paul II

" I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. "

Alexander Hamilton

" I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics. "

Amitabh Bachchan

" Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people. "

Enrique Iglesias

" The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. "

" When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer. "