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" Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night. "

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" All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us. "

John Trudell

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Real

" Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. "

" My touchstone for every question is the Constitution. "

" The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here. "

" We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe. "

" I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. "

" Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock. "

" There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community. "

" We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism. "

" Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it. "

Marianne Williamson

" The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.' "

" If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. "

" Trauma and sexual abuse are two of our most pressing human and societal problems. They must be studied by unbiased scientific investigation rather than polarized by hysteria and politics. "

" Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater. "

" The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds. "

" People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. "

Calvin Trillin

Just

People

" 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. "

" I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war. "

Enrique Iglesias

Politics

War

" I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics. "

Steven Wright

Universe

Talk

" When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. "

" The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961. "

" Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport. "

" I don't think anybody in the entertainment industry or in politics is surprised by the fact that those worlds are rife with promiscuity and irresponsibility - certainly a lack of accountability. "

" I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture. "

" Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. "

" My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job. "

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

" I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. "

" The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. "

" America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. "