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" I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. "

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" The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. "

Otto von Bismarck

" My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test. "

" I am not a political person, so I cannot comment on politics. "

" If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you'll have to answer to yourself. I find it morally reprehensible. "

" Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly. "

" Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. "

" True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity. "

" Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. "

" 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

" Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. "

Thomas Jefferson

" In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth. "

Marianne Williamson

" Politics and power is a realm of relative influence. "

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

" If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit. "

Ethan Zuckerman

" In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. "

" 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

" The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. "

Lysander Spooner

" I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics. "

" Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. "

Christopher Lasch

" Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. "

Natural Disasters

" Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. "

" The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists. "

" My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.' "

" Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics. "

John Shelton Reed

" When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed. "

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

" 'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being. "

" Everything is politics. "