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" Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. "

R. Buckminster Fuller

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" When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. "

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" There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion. "

" I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. "

Arnold H. Glasow

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

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" In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault. "

" Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. "

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" One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless. "

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" In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. "

Charles de Gaulle

" Space has always been confusing to politics. "

" Finality is not the language of politics. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. "

" It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money. "

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" All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. "

Walter Cronkite

" Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics. "

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" I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics. "

" If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. "

Winston Churchill

" In Pakistan politics is hereditary. "

" Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. "

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" There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. "

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" I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man. "

" I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. "

" There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing. "

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

" Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win. "

" Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand. "

Andrew Breitbart