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" Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into their most basic, digestible and familiar bits. Listeners prefer songs they have heard before, after all. "

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" I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward. "

" There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. "

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" I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics. "

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" I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics. "

" Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. "

" Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. "

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

" I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability. "

" As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother. "

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" Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff. "

" Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man. "

" There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. "

" Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. "

" You do the policy, I'll do the politics. "

" I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration. "

" The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. "

" Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop? "

" Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. "

" When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. "

" You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job. "

" The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. "

" Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. "

" I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar. "

" The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. "

" Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. "

" Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. "

" I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation. "

" 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! "