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" In politics the middle way is none at all. "
John Adams
Middle
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None
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" A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. "
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" It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. "
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" A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. "
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" I deeply believe - and not just as a matter of politics, but even as a matter of morality - that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. And the last thing we need is government intruding into those personal decisions. "
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" Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics. "
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" In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. "
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" I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved. "
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" Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. "
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" Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. "
Billy Hughes
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" To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. "
Hubert H. Humphrey
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" The ballot is stronger than the bullet. "
Abraham Lincoln
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" When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. "
Edmund Burke
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" My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test. "
Steven Pinker
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" The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. "
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Who
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" When my parents force-fed me healthy food, they were confident they were giving me the best. But now, when I feed my children, I am not sure if what I am giving them is safe. Politics and pesticides are destroying our food culture. "
Vijay Sethupathi
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" Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. "
Richard Armour
Long
Years
Wrong
" Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man. "
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" There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization. "
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" In Pakistan politics is hereditary. "
Imran Khan
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" Politics is the art of the next best. "
Otto von Bismarck
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. "
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" Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. "
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