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" Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever. "

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" And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.' "

" Americans and Europeans share a common goal - to build an enduring peace based on freedom. "

" Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. "

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" Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know? "

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" I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties. "

" There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives? "

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" I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA. "

" Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics. "

" I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. "

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" In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words. "

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" The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. "

" Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after. "

Andrew Ross Sorkin

" The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. "

" Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values. "

" When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. "

" Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business. "

" For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum. "

" In modern politics, polls often serve as the canary in the mine - an early warning signal of danger or trends. But polls can also be used to wag the dog - diverting attention from something significant. "

" Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. "

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" I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. "

" There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician? "

" In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. "

" I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific. "

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" Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics. "

" In politics nothing is contemptible. "

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" If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. "

" Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics. "

" I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic. "

" I never let my politics supersede my manners. "