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" The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics. "

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" I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics. "

" 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. "

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" Regulation creates a moral hazard. "

" A week is a long time in politics. "

" Politics is the womb in which war develops. "

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" The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators. "

" The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. "

Christopher Hitchens

" People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively. "

" Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics. "

" Satire doesn't effect change. "

" The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay. "

" Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process. "

" After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States. "

" Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it. "

" Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country. "

Doing The Right Thing

" I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and - at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together - that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world. "

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

" America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are. "

" Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. "

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" Liberals consider people to be nuisances. "

" My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth. "

" Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter. "

" The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people. "

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" Half a truth is better than no politics. "

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