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" The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. "

Lord Hailsham

True

Religion

Politics

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Way

" 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. "

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

" In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. "

" We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia. "

" When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me. "

" I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice. "

" In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.' "

" I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture. "

" Politics won't allow for the truth. "

" An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. "

" 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

Lesson

Better

" The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. "

" I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. "

" Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life. "

" The basis of Ronald Reagan was his humanity. I might not have agreed with his politics, but my research - all I read about him and by him - was that he was revered because he had a big heart. He was very religious and sincere. He believed that one spoke truths because, otherwise, people would know you were lying. None of that even applies to Trump. "

" I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. "

" 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. "

" Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. "

" Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. "

" If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. "

" The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

Man

Moral

Politics

" Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations. "

" In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. "

" All politics is local. "

Thomas P. O'Neill

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Politics

" Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. "

" 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. "

" I'm not one of those actors that knows everything about politics. "