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" They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. "

Clare Boothe Luce

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" Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared. "

" Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well. "

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" I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics. "

Shirley Chisholm

" The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics. "

Mikhail Kalashnikov

" The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. "

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

" Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state. "

" 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. "

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

" In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics. "

" Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law. "

" The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. "

Gerhard Schroder

" Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics. "

" These political consultants love business guys who've never been in politics to try and take advantage of them. I get that. "

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

" The best politics is no politics. "

Henry M. Jackson

" The ballot is stronger than the bullet. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. "

" I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives. "

" Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. "

Winston Churchill

" All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics. "

" We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood. "

" Government serves Christ's kingdom rule; this is its purpose. And Christians' purpose in politics should be to advance the kingdom of God - to make it more real, more tangible, more present. "

" I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions. "

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

" Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible. "

" Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality. "

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

" When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change. "

" I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun. "