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

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" Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous. "

Jordan Peterson

" Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. "

Charles de Gaulle

" A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. "

" Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball. "

" I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. "

Jeane Kirkpatrick

" There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. "

" Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians. "

Fletcher Knebel

" All politics are local, and so in church. "

" Bad politics make for bad morals. "

" What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. "

David Lloyd George

" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. "

Henry Kissinger

" A fool and his money are soon elected. "

" Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking. "

" In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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. "

Winston Churchill

" Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. "

" Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "

" Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy. "

" Under every stone lurks a politician. "

" Voting is a civic sacrament. "

Theodore Hesburgh

" I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election. "

Pervez Musharraf

" Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people. "

" When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. "

John W. Gardner

" I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections. "

" Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect. "

" I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life. "

" Politics is the one field you don't age out of. "

" The money in politics is a cash cow for the media. "

" I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. "

Arthur C. Clarke

" In Pakistan politics is hereditary. "