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" It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. "
Ronald Reagan
I Have Learned
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" I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office. "
Chelsea Clinton
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" Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. "
Ronald Reagan
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" Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. "
Doug Larson
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" Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
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" Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous. "
Pawan Kalyan
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" Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. "
Eleanor Roosevelt
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" If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. "
Winston Churchill
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" Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do. "
Marianne Williamson
" I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward. "
Peter Hain
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Looking
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" 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. "
James Spader
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" Politics and power is a realm of relative influence. "
Fareed Zakaria
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Power
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" When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. "
William Hague
Wonder
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" 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. "
Max Weber
Politics
Power
Hands
" Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. "
Ronald Reagan
Money
Need
Finds
" Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "
Douglas Adams
Why
Trust
Social
" When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. "
P. J. O'Rourke
First
Buying
Things
" Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics. "
Theresa May
Politics
Why
Ask
" In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Retreat
Never
Mistake
" Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well. "
Justin Trudeau
People
Make A Difference
Politics
" There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician? "
Ted Cruz
Politics
People
Mad
" Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. "
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Brain
War
Remember
" My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters. "
Mario Vargas Llosa
Power
People
Politics
" It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. "
Robert Redford
Honor
Things
Soul
" 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
Money
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" I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation. "
Kyrsten Sinema
Think
Civility
Opinions
" I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction. "
Hillary Clinton
Politics
Think
You
" Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. "
Frank Zappa
Entertainment
Politics
Industry
" I would prefer not to be involved in party politics. "
George Soros
Involved
Would
Prefer
" We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. "
Ronald Reagan
Innocents
World
Abroad
" War is the continuation of politics by other means. "
Carl von Clausewitz
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