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" It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.' "

Malcolm Turnbull

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" The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. "

" I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable. "

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" Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society. "

" 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. "

" In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics. "

" We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation. "

" I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. "

Margaret Thatcher

" I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals. "

" America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. "

Warren G. Harding

" Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort. "

" You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. "

" That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics. "

Thomas P. O'Neill

" Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. "

" I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics. "

" The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion. "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" 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. "

" Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. "

" Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. "

" What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives. "

" It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. "

" The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics. "

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" Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. "

" Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night. "

" Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it. "

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" I've always championed women in politics. We just get stuck in; politics isn't a game. The decisions we make affect people's lives, and that is something we must all keep to the forefront of our minds. "

" If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. "

" I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. "

" Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group. "