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" War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. "

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" A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. "

" Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. "

" The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in. "

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

Henry Kissinger

" Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. "

William E. Gladstone

" There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization. "

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

" Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. "

" A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics. "

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

Thomas P. O'Neill

" Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. "

William O. Douglas

" Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. "

" A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology. "

" A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer! "

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

Reinhold Niebuhr

" Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto. "

" 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. "

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

" I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong. "

" Party honesty is party expediency. "

Grover Cleveland

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

" I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet. "

Madhur Bhandarkar

" Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. "

" Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. "

" I discourage a cult of personality. "

" I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. "

" Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life. "

" I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

" Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state. "