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" In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. "

Joseph Chamberlain

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Doing The Right Thing

" 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. "

" Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. "

" Under every stone lurks a politician. "

" 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. "

" 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

" I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. "

" 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

" I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. "

Vivienne Westwood

" The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. "

" When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. "

Clarence Darrow

" Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. "

" 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. "

" Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. "

" All politics are local, and so in church. "

" The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience. "

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

Martin L. Gross

" I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. "

" The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. "

Otto von Bismarck

" The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists. "

" 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. "

" The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. "

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

Albert Einstein

" As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. "

" All politics is local. "

Thomas P. O'Neill

" If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. "

" The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. "

Natural Disasters

" He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. "