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" Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. "

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" The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" Only great minds can afford a simple style. "

" It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. "

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

" In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in. "

" You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. "

" The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. "

Konrad Adenauer

" The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. "

Eldridge Cleaver

" I am so pleased and happy, and I believe that the Almighty God has a plan for our nation by putting us in strategic positions in politics, business, and everywhere. "

" Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor. "

" All politics is local. "

Thomas P. O'Neill

" A lot of times, politics, global issues are very black and white. There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints, open for interpretations. "

Black And White

" Politics ruins the character. "

Otto von Bismarck

" Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. "

" Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. "

Charles Krauthammer

" It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. "

Richard M. Nixon

" But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money. "

" Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. "

" In politics nothing is contemptible. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me. "

Marianne Williamson

" 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. "

" Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. "

" Politics and ethics belong to different worlds. "

" When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed. "

" Our true passions are selfish. "

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" Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. "

Milton Friedman

" I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. "

" I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong. "