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" It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. "

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" 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. "

" We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood. "

" Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after. "

Andrew Ross Sorkin

" All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. "

Walter Cronkite

" 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

" I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "

Barry Goldwater

" 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. "

" The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. "

" As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them. "

" Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. "

" 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. "

" My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery. "

" Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. "

" Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. "

" What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. "

" Good government is good politics. "

Richard J. Daley

" The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. "

" It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. "

" American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean. "

" Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. "

" The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved. "

Marianne Williamson

" When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. "

" Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate. "

" It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. "

" Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand. "

Andrew Breitbart

" The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault. "

" First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. "

" Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality. "

Marianne Williamson

" The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. "