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" Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats. "

David Suzuki

Business

Politics

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

" I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. "

" 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. "

" I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. "

" I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president. "

" The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. "

" When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality. "

" A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. "

" It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom. "

" I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. "

" From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. "

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

" The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs. "

P. J. O'Rourke

Politics

Best

" It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. "

" Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. "

" 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. "

" We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism. "

" The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes. "

Matt Damon

Politics

Election

" The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. "

" Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. "

" When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. "

" All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident. "

David Suzuki

Outdoors

Confident

" If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? "

" If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.' "

" I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it. "

Nas

Hip-Hop

Now

" There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy. "

" America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. "

" I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me. "

" If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies. "

" I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here. "