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" Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics. "

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" We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact. "

" People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music. "

" There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums. "

" Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. "

" I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. "

" We need a bold, new, positive vision for the future of our country. "

" The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. "

" The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. "

" Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. "

William E. Gladstone

" 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. "

" Tax credits do not help people get better jobs; in fact, they can create poverty traps that actually disincentivise people from working more hours or finding a better paid job. "

" Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do. "

" I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters. "

" Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work. "

" The secret of getting things done is to act! "

Dante Alighieri

" Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous. "

Jordan Peterson

" Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. "

" In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. "

Walter Savage Landor

" I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think. "

" The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. "

" Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into their most basic, digestible and familiar bits. Listeners prefer songs they have heard before, after all. "

" What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. "

David Lloyd George

" I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever. "

" In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. "

Joseph Chamberlain

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

" In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics. "

" 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