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" We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation. "

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" It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. "

Joseph Stalin

Politics

Election

Enough

" Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics. "

" I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific. "

" 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. "

" The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault. "

" In modern politics, polls often serve as the canary in the mine - an early warning signal of danger or trends. But polls can also be used to wag the dog - diverting attention from something significant. "

" There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion. "

Barack Obama

" I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. "

" 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. "

" There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. "

" 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. "

" Politics makes me sick. "

William Howard Taft

Sick

Politics

" I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "

" A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. "

" My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life. "

" The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. "

" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics

Two

Walk

" Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect. "

" Film in many ways is very literal. "

" The longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats. "

" Half a truth is better than no politics. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Better

Half

Politics

" I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?' "

Evgeny Morozov

Door

Politics

" Television is democracy at its ugliest. "

" Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man. "

" Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics. "

" We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy. "

" Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.' "

" Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print - writing in English, interviewing Americans - validated my presence here. "

Jose Antonio Vargas

Teacher

Myself

" This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first. "

Brad Henry

Democrats

First

" When the Founding Fathers arrived here in Philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn't come as Democrats or Republicans or to nominate a presidential candidate. They came as patriots who feared party politics. "