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

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" Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. "

" I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here. "

" If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. "

" Politics and power is a realm of relative influence. "

" 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. "

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

" Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. "

" At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. "

" War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. "

" 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. "

" One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. "

" Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance. "

" Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly. "

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

" Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do. "

" In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. "

Armstrong Williams

" Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional. "

" The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

Margaret Thatcher

" Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. "

" Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. "

" All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us. "

" That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics. "

Thomas P. O'Neill

" Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "

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

" Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences. "

" Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect. "

" I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color. "