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" So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. "
Roger Nash Baldwin
People
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Fight
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" Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. "
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" The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. "
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" The politics of judges is getting to be red hot. "
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" I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. "
Vivienne Westwood
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" I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration. "
Robert Reich
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" Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. "
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" Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy. "
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" I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters. "
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" Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. "
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Men
" 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. "
Enda Kenny
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" It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. "
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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More
" People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. "
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People
" Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life. "
Billy Graham
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Always
Life
" I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. "
Oliver Stone
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" We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. "
Ciaran Hinds
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Lot
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" A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. "
Albert Pike
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" I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition. "
Malcolm Turnbull
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" Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop? "
Molly Ivins
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Who
Noticed
" Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine. "
Paul Wellstone
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" Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man. "
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" The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961. "
George Will
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Women
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" Hope springs eternal, even in politics. "
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Springs
" In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. "
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" Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? "
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" Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics. "
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" I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president. "
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" I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?' "
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" I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in. "
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