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" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. "

Henry Kissinger

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" The politics of judges is getting to be red hot. "

" The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. "

" There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

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

" Bad politics make for bad morals. "

" The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision. "

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" If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. "

Winston Churchill

" The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. "

" I discourage a cult of personality. "

" That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics. "

Thomas P. O'Neill

" Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. "

" I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. "

" What we see before us is a politics devoid of kindness and truth... today, politics is not being used in the service of the people: it is being used to crush them, not to lift them up. "

" I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. "

" In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time. "

Malala Yousafzai

" Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. "

" What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. "

David Lloyd George

" Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully. "

" You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. "

" I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. "

" The basis of Ronald Reagan was his humanity. I might not have agreed with his politics, but my research - all I read about him and by him - was that he was revered because he had a big heart. He was very religious and sincere. He believed that one spoke truths because, otherwise, people would know you were lying. None of that even applies to Trump. "

" My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. "