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" What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? "

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" The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture. "

Christine Pelosi

" Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism. "

" I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn't be in politics, now are saying, 'Oh, wait, I don't need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I'll run, too.' "

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

" When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. "

Maggie Gallagher

" Politics and ethics belong to different worlds. "

" Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion. "

" If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. "

" One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns. "

" Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. "

Christopher Hitchens

" I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy. "

" Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. "

" A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. "

" If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? "

" Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know? "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state. "

" Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. "

" Politics is the art of the next best. "

Otto von Bismarck

" You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. "

" I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them. "

" I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. "

" An overwhelming number of economists, international civil servants, and policy-makers argue that a fragmentation of the Eurozone would cause a new depression and massive wealth destruction around the world. It would also end the period of economic integration that has characterized world politics since the end of the Cold War. "

" 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

" There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom. "

" Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Voting is a civic sacrament. "

Theodore Hesburgh

" Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. "

Charles Krauthammer