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" Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball. "

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" I haven't been very active in politics. "

" One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state. "

" It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris. "

Madeleine M. Kunin

" 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. "

Abraham Lincoln

" I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever. "

" Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" In politics the middle way is none at all. "

" First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. "

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

" All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. "

Walter Cronkite

" The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. "

" Politics is the art of the next best. "

Otto von Bismarck

" The ballot is stronger than the bullet. "

Abraham Lincoln

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

Reinhold Niebuhr

" Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.' "

Joseph Stiglitz

" Politics makes strange bedfellows. "

Charles Dudley Warner

" I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. "

Jeane Kirkpatrick

" I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. "

" Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do. "

" When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. "

John W. Gardner

" The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike. "

Lincoln Steffens

" The secret of getting things done is to act! "

Dante Alighieri

" I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns. "

" 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. "

Atifete Jahjaga

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

Shirley Chisholm

" Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. "