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

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" My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test. "

" There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing. "

" Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win. "

" Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him. "

" When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. "

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" You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. "

" Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible. "

" One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. "

Margaret Thatcher

" Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.' "

" The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats. "

" I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined. "

" Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others. "

" Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable. "

" Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. "

" College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions. "

" Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics. "

" I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal. "

" There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring. "

" I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about. "

" I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.' "

" Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. "

" 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. "

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

" Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse. "

" Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics. "

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" If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama. "