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" There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion. "

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Armstrong Williams

" We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not. "

" I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on. "

" It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. "

" Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else. "

" I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true. "

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

" Freedom is for fun. "

" When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches. "

" Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help? "

" Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. "

" As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. "

" Half a truth is better than no politics. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them. "

" To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor. "

" You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. "

" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "

" Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. "

Michael Ignatieff

" I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn't be in politics, now are saying, 'Oh, wait, I don't need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I'll run, too.' "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older. "

" The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. "

" People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement. "

" The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision. "

" If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit. "

Ethan Zuckerman

" One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. "

Margaret Thatcher

" You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history. "

" Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. "

David Attenborough

" Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. "

" Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. "

" I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. "