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" Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations. "

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Konrad Adenauer

" A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns. "

" Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. "

William Gilbert

" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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. "

" If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. "

" Politics makes strange bedfellows. "

Charles Dudley Warner

" You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. "

" There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious and unconscious patterns into data sets and algorithms has revolutionized what they know about us and, therefore, how precisely they can sell. "

" There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal. "

Condoleezza Rice

" As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York. "

" Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. "

" If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. "

" Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Populist promises to reverse every tough decision are nothing but empty rhetoric, irresponsible leadership, and bad politics. They are not the solution to Ireland's problems. "

" Hope springs eternal, even in politics. "

" Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that. "

Lamar Alexander

" Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. "

" Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process. "

" In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. "

Charles de Gaulle

" Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature. "

Antonio Damasio

" 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. "

" Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. "

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

" There are no friends at cards or world politics. "

Finley Peter Dunne

" Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared. "

" I deeply believe - and not just as a matter of politics, but even as a matter of morality - that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. And the last thing we need is government intruding into those personal decisions. "

" My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.' "

" 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. "