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" There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. "

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" Politics is the womb in which war develops. "

Carl von Clausewitz

" I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. "

" Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations. "

" With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold. "

" Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport. "

" When politics is interesting, people go vote. "

Jacques Parizeau

" The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. "

Otto von Bismarck

" When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. "

Maggie Gallagher

" I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "

Barry Goldwater

" I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color. "

" I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. "

" 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. "

" After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. "

George C. Wallace

" Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. "

" I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. "

" Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. "

Mikhail Bakunin

" 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. "

" Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining. "

" The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. "

" Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. "

" If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. "

Winston Churchill

" Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. "

" I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics. "

Amitabh Bachchan

" Politics is applesauce. "

" I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. "

Jeane Kirkpatrick

" Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. "

Milton Friedman

" 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. "

" Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man. "

" The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. "

" 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. "