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" We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. "
William Howard Taft
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" I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. "
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" We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation. "
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" When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change. "
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" It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be. "
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" In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. "
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" The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. "
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" Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. "
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" All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. "
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" I wish I was less good-looking and more unpopular. Then I could get into politics and use my pent-up resentment about being ugly and unpopular to systematically destroy the country. "
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" The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961. "
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" When my parents force-fed me healthy food, they were confident they were giving me the best. But now, when I feed my children, I am not sure if what I am giving them is safe. Politics and pesticides are destroying our food culture. "
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" I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics. "
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" I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics. "
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" We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires and billionaires who can give unlimited and undisclosed amounts of money to influence our elections. "
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" Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. "
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" Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality. "
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" Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. "
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