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" Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics. "

Edward Brooke

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Liberal

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" In politics nothing is contemptible. "

" I wish I was less good-looking and more unpopular. Then I could get into politics and use my pent-up resentment about being ugly and unpopular to systematically destroy the country. "

Taika Waititi

Ugly

Good-Looking

" Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did. "

" I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong. "

" He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

Who

Slander

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

" I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again. "

" I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on. "

" Good government is good politics. "

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

" A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. "

" Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. "

" Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts. "

" One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state. "

" Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. "

" The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life. "

" Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics. "

" Technology and the Internet are not just changing politics here in the U.S. It's also happening abroad. In the Philippines, where I grew up, grassroots organizers used text messaging to help overthrow a president. "

Jose Antonio Vargas

Help

Technology

" 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. "

" Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters. "

" I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. "

" Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness - but it's nevertheless a politics of outrage, animated by at least a trace of envy. It's as if 'millionaires and billionaires' were the principal problem facing America today. "

" There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics. "

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

" In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. "

" I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet. "

" I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and - at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together - that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world. "

" The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics. "

" It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. "

" I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics. "