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" There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. "

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" In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. "

" You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. "

" I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

" Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully. "

" At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. "

Shirley Chisholm

" The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. "

" Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. "

" A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. "

William Randolph

" I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics. "

" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. "

Henry Kissinger

" Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

Charles de Gaulle

" Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. "

" In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. "

Armstrong Williams

" Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it. "

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

" The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. "

" Party honesty is party expediency. "

Grover Cleveland

" The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics. "

" It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. "

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

" Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. "

Milton Friedman

" But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money. "

" The basis of Ronald Reagan was his humanity. I might not have agreed with his politics, but my research - all I read about him and by him - was that he was revered because he had a big heart. He was very religious and sincere. He believed that one spoke truths because, otherwise, people would know you were lying. None of that even applies to Trump. "

" The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. "

" An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. "

Arnold H. Glasow

" What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! "

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

Theodore Roosevelt

" I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others. "

" People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. "