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" 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. "

Matt Damon

Politics

Election

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" What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record. "

Peter Hain

Road

Politics

" In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. "

" Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion. "

" 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. "

" Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. "

" The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life. "

" My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. "

" I think marrying somebody who's not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off. "

" I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive. "

" I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. "

" The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience. "

" We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. "

William Howard Taft

Important

Politics

" Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. "

" Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense. "

" Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. "

" Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. "

" Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries. "

" The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists. "

" Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it. "

Marianne Williamson

" I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. "

" Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics. "

" Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation. "

" Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. "

" Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. "

" Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection. "

" Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. "

" A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism. "

Walter Cronkite

Try

Politics

" 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. "

" Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. "