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" True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity. "

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" Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics. "

" Authentic apology is a tricky thing to pull off in politics, which is why it so seldom occurs. Plausible deniability must be preserved. True contrition has to be displayed. Traitors to the cause must be immediately be jettisoned. Most of all, the goal is to stop the bleeding. "

" Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking. "

" In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. "

" Populist promises to reverse every tough decision are nothing but empty rhetoric, irresponsible leadership, and bad politics. They are not the solution to Ireland's problems. "

" It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes. "

" On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office. "

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

" Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. "

" I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics. "

" What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. "

" Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. "

" In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. "

" I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. "

" I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense. "

" Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. "

" I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love. "

" Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. "

" Back in the days of world wars, American companies didn't think twice about pitching in to help fight the enemy. Car companies helped bolster tanks, food companies created rations - sometimes they had to do it, but no one had to twist their arm. "

" I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. "

" Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. "

" Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. "

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" 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. "

" He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. "

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" In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. "

" I actually hate lyrics, and I hate it when they're quoted in reviews. I don't think they matter that much; it's the sounds of words - not the words - that I look for. "

" Party honesty is party expediency. "