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" Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. "

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" When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. "

William J. Clinton

" Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. "

" 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. "

" 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

" The best politics is no politics. "

Henry M. Jackson

" 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

" Bad politics make for bad morals. "

" The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. "

Alphonse de Lamartine

" 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. "

" Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney. "

" I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent. "

Andrew Breitbart

" There might be some serious fun in politics. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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

" 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. "

" In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. "

Catherine the Great

" Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences. "

" I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. "

" Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. "

" Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. "

" So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. "

Roger Nash Baldwin

" 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

" The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes. "

" We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. "

" The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability. "

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

" Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. "

Charles de Gaulle

" Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do. "

Marianne Williamson

" There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. "