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" Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. "

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" I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to. "

" Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him. "

" 'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama. "

" Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.' "

" In Pakistan politics is hereditary. "

" You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. "

" The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. "

" Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. "

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

" Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it. "

" What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. "

" Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money. "

" In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. "

Catherine the Great

" A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person. "

" The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. "

" As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children. "

" I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. "

Christopher Hitchens

" When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital. "

" When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do. "

" I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it. "

" Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. "

" Politics are not the task of a Christian. "

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

" I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "

Barry Goldwater

" Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. "

" Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. "

Winston Churchill

" Politics have no relation to morals. "

Niccolo Machiavelli