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" To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

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" The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. "

" War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. "

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" I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. "

" I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. "

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" I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice. "

" People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. "

" People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people who are at the bottom. "

" Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something! "

" I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it. "

" If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

" Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. "

" The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy. "

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" When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost. "

Patrick Lencioni

" A fool and his money are soon elected. "

" Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. "

G. M. Trevelyan

" The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people. "

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" I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt. "

" The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. "

Eldridge Cleaver

" In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. "

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" Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better. "

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" The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics. "

" We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism. "

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" Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. "

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