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" The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. "

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" Party honesty is party expediency. "

Grover Cleveland

" I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections. "

" It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball. "

" It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money. "

Alberto Manguel

" The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. "

Eldridge Cleaver

" 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. "

" I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. "

Richard M. Nixon

" There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. "

Margaret Thatcher

" We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. "

" Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. "

Milton Friedman

" Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "

" My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Gender used to be a barrier for women to overcome if they wanted to be in politics, but today in Taiwan the situation is somewhat different. I think there is even a preference for a woman candidate, and in local elections, we have seen that younger, better-educated female candidates are overwhelmingly preferred by the voters. "

" If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species. "

" From politics, it was an easy step to silence. "

" In politics, you've got to have a fallback in our line of work because your career can be over in an instant. Not that I would make much money playing a harmonica. "

" I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Northeastern conservatism is moderate, accepts the modern welfare state, and dislikes mixing religion with politics. Western conservatism is hawkish, hates government, and embraces individual freedom. Southern conservatism is populist, draws on evangelical Christianity, and plays upon racial resentments. "

" I'm not really into politics, but if I had my own country, I would make sure all my people were educated and figuring out what they love to do, and focusing on that. "

Tiffany Haddish

" Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "

" If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act. "

" A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. "

" Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. "

" Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball. "

" I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "

Charles de Gaulle

" People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music. "

" Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose. "

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

" A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. "

" Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people. "