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" There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician? "

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

" You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line. "

" Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it. "

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

" I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals. "

" Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly. "

" There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal. "

" If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. "

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" A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. "

" 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. "

" There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency. "

" Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions. "

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" The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream. "

" We're seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarian and Reagan Democrats all coming together as one, and that terrifies Washington, D.C. "

" It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.' "

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" I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war. "

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" I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy. "

" I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics. "