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" Politics for me started in violence. "

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" I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. "

" The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Populist promises to reverse every tough decision are nothing but empty rhetoric, irresponsible leadership, and bad politics. They are not the solution to Ireland's problems. "

" Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries. "

Kirsten Gillibrand

" When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. "

Clarence Darrow

" Politics and power is a realm of relative influence. "

" The FARC has given up their arms. They are now a political party. They are now doing politics, which is what a peace process was all about. "

Juan Manuel Santos

" As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. "

" Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. "

" People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies. "

" 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. "

" The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life. "

" You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. "

" The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. "

" There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable. "

Hillary Clinton

" So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. "

Roger Nash Baldwin

" You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. "

" Without alienation, there can be no politics. "

" Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics. "

" I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?' "

" I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. "

" Politics is the one field you don't age out of. "

" The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. "

" That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics. "

Thomas P. O'Neill

" Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. "

" I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward. "

" France is a very attractive place: the health care system, for example. "