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" Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. "

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" 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. "

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" Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. "

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

" We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us. "

" Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics. "

" True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. "

" 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. "

" When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants. "

" Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it. "

Marianne Williamson

" Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. "

" A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. "

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

" Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. "

" The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. "

" It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. "

" 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. "

" I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people. "

" In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. "

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

" It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. "

" One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! "

" Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into their most basic, digestible and familiar bits. Listeners prefer songs they have heard before, after all. "

" I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense. "

" Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics. "

" Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. "

" Gender used to be a barrier for women to overcome if they wanted to be in politics, but today in Taiwan the situation is somewhat different. I think there is even a preference for a woman candidate, and in local elections, we have seen that younger, better-educated female candidates are overwhelmingly preferred by the voters. "

" People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' "

" We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires and billionaires who can give unlimited and undisclosed amounts of money to influence our elections. "

" One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. "

" If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. "