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" What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record. "
Peter Hain
Road
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Me
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" I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here. "
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" When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality. "
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" Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. "
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" 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?' "
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" No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. "
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" Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. "
Bill Moyers
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Great
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" I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. "
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" Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "
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" I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties. "
Gautam Adani
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I Am
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" My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.' "
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Friend
" 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. "
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America
Trust
Two
" Politics and power is a realm of relative influence. "
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Realm
Power
Politics
" I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think. "
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" Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do. "
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" People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' "
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Today
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" As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother. "
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" Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. "
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Done
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" There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing. "
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