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" Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. "

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" Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal. "

" Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics. "

" Politics makes strange bedfellows. "

Charles Dudley Warner

" You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. "

" I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker. "

" One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea. "

" What we see before us is a politics devoid of kindness and truth... today, politics is not being used in the service of the people: it is being used to crush them, not to lift them up. "

" Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. "

George Jean Nathan

" Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life. "

" The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people. "

" Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR. "

Professionalism

" Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. "

" Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. "

Otto von Bismarck

" It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be. "

" No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. "

Thomas Friedman

" I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. "

Vivienne Westwood

" I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration. "

" Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very hard to deal with. "

" I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world. "

" The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. "

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

Mikhail Kalashnikov

" I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade. "

" 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

" From politics, it was an easy step to silence. "

" I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability. "

" I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. "

" Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. "

" High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power. "

Joseph Stiglitz

" I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. "

" Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently. "

Joseph Stiglitz