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" The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. "

Clare Boothe Luce

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" The longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats. "

" The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. "

" I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics. "

" I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not. "

Clare Boothe Luce

" If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. "

" The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. "

" 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. "

" Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff. "

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

" I haven't been very active in politics. "

" For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. "

John W. Gardner

" In Pakistan politics is hereditary. "

" I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. "

" Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society. "

" In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. "

John F. Kennedy

" When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. "

" 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. "

" I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president. "

Hillary Clinton

" The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. "

" I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. "

Christopher Hitchens

" One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state. "

" 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. "

James Russell Lowell

" I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love. "

" Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it. "

" We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics. "

Hillary Clinton

" The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people. "

" Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. "