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" People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. "

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" Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully. "

" When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose. "

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

" Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. "

" Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department. "

" I never let my politics supersede my manners. "

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

Lysander Spooner

" The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics. "

Mikhail Kalashnikov

" Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it. "

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" Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable. "

Whitfield Diffie

" Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous. "

" When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. "

" 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. "

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

" Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" No matter what you may think about her politics or her record, Hillary Clinton understands that this is not reality television; this is reality. She understands the job of president. It involves finding solutions, not pointing fingers; and offering hope, not stoking fear. "

Michael Bloomberg

" I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. "

" That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics. "

" Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. "

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

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

" Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "

Charles de Gaulle

" At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House. "

" We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires and billionaires who can give unlimited and undisclosed amounts of money to influence our elections. "

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

Lady Bird Johnson

" The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes. "

" If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents. "

" It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. "

Winston Churchill

" There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. "

" Hope springs eternal, even in politics. "