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" Politics makes strange bedfellows. "

Charles Dudley Warner

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" Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. "

" Government serves Christ's kingdom rule; this is its purpose. And Christians' purpose in politics should be to advance the kingdom of God - to make it more real, more tangible, more present. "

" I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun. "

" I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. "

Winston Churchill

" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. "

" I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. "

" One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. "

Margaret Thatcher

" Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "

" I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think. "

" The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. "

" 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. "

" Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. "

Robertson Davies

" In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. "

John F. Kennedy

" I played by the rules of politics as I found them. "

Richard M. Nixon

" 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. "

" Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. "

" 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. "

" From politics, it was an easy step to silence. "

" When politics is interesting, people go vote. "

Jacques Parizeau

" The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. "

" Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney. "

" The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people. "

" In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. "

" 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

" Northeastern conservatism is moderate, accepts the modern welfare state, and dislikes mixing religion with politics. Western conservatism is hawkish, hates government, and embraces individual freedom. Southern conservatism is populist, draws on evangelical Christianity, and plays upon racial resentments. "

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

" 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. "

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