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" Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort. "

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" Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot. "

" I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting. "

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" We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do. "

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" Without alienation, there can be no politics. "

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

" We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation. "

" I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again. "

" Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. "

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

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

" Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy. "

" Democrats hate Democrats most of all. "

" A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics. "

Marianne Williamson

" Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples. "

" In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes. "

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" I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. "

" I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. "

" I'm really tired of virtue. "

" The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it. "

" The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. "

" Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment. "

" I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. "

" When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. "

" Liberalism is Rationalism in politics. "

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" Politics is the womb in which war develops. "

" The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. "

" President Obama has contempt for real money. "

" You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. "