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" The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers. "

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" Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism. "

" Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. "

" The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines. "

Michael Eric Dyson

" My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.' "

" The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes. "

" I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions. "

" I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward. "

" I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think. "

" I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies. "

Hillary Clinton

" A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics. "

" The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. "

Konrad Adenauer

" The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. "

" I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people. "

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" A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. "

Caskie Stinnett

" A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. "

" We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics. "

Gary Rossington

" Politics won't allow for the truth. "

" The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved. "

Marianne Williamson

" Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night. "

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

" 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. "

" What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. "

" I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me. "

Mamata Banerjee

" Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing. "

Jennifer Pahlka

" They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. "

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