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" Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly. "

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" The fossil fuel industry commands outsize sway over U.S. politics, markets, and democracy. I knew these companies were formidable, but when I served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, I got a close up view of how the industry disregards government safeguards. "

Frances Beinecke

" Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. "

" Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics. "

" I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party. "

" I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office. "

Chelsea Clinton

" Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable. "

" As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother. "

" 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

" We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation. "

Jose Antonio Vargas

" One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. "

" War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. "

" Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. "

" It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work. "

" I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives. "

" The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. "

Natural Disasters

" Reality: What a concept! "

" When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side. "

" The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. "

" A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. "

William Randolph

" Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" The people in Iowa know that Washington isn't working. It's devolved into partisan politics and a lot of gridlock and obstruction. "

" My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics. "

" When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice, you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale. "

" Politics makes me sick. "

William Howard Taft

" Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. "

Winston Churchill

" 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. "

James Russell Lowell

" Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics. "

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

" 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

" If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? "

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