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

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" I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. "

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" Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. "

Lady Bird Johnson

" Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example. "

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Benjamin Disraeli

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Joseph Stiglitz

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" It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. "

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

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" 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. "

" One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state. "

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Jean-Paul Sartre

" In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. "

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" If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. "