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" It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris. "

Madeleine M. Kunin

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" 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. "

" 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 art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. "

Konrad Adenauer

" More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. "

Jeff Greenfield

" Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. 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. "

" Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "

" A political party is about an ideology. And I don't think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political party. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. "

G. M. Trevelyan

" Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. "

" A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money. "

" The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions. "

Madeleine M. Kunin

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

" Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it. "

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

" I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved. "

" No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession. "

" 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. "

" Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. "

" When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change. "

" We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. "

William Howard Taft

" Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. "

Grover Cleveland

" At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. "

Shirley Chisholm

" Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. "

" I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. "

Dante Alighieri

" It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom. "

" We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy. "