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

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" As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. "

" When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. "

" I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere. "

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

" Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country. "

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" I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics. "

" Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. "

" The money in politics is a cash cow for the media. "

" The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics. "

" The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. "

" If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. "

" Without alienation, there can be no politics. "

" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. "

" I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along. "

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

John Shelton Reed

" The fossil fuel industry commands outsize sway over U.S. politics, markets, and democracy. I knew these companies were formidable, but when I served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, I got a close up view of how the industry disregards government safeguards. "

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" The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics. "

" 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.' "

" Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. "

" The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. "

Christopher Hitchens

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

" A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. "

" If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. "

" I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun. "

" Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. "

Winston Churchill

" The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. "

" 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. "

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

Thomas Jefferson

" Technology and the Internet are not just changing politics here in the U.S. It's also happening abroad. In the Philippines, where I grew up, grassroots organizers used text messaging to help overthrow a president. "

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