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" Under every stone lurks a politician. "

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" Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. "

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Theodore Hesburgh

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Winston Churchill

" The people in Iowa know that Washington isn't working. It's devolved into partisan politics and a lot of gridlock and obstruction. "

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Charles W. Pickering

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" I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics. "

" One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. "

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" The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers. "

" Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group. "

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" 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. "

" Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever. "

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

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" 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. "

" A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics. "

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" And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery. "