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" What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives. "

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" Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. "

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" Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that. "

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" I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics. "

" Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. "

" What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. "

" In politics the middle way is none at all. "

" What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. "

" I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. "

" The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits. "

" We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket science. We've done it before successfully at the presidential level and tried it several places at the state level. "

" Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics. "

" After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. "

" I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along. "

" It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. "

" Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all presiding officers and reading clerks can spit out the formulaic incantations of parliamentary procedure. "

" Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.' "

" Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. "

" Even after four years in office, George W. Bush's record on women doesn't leap out at you. It's composed almost entirely of little things, small enough to fly well under the media's radar screen, so few of us have any sense of their cumulative impact. "

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

" I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds. "

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" Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. "

" Jimmy Carter was unquestionably the most moral president of my lifetime, but he wasn't much of a president. "

" The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. "

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" Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity. "

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" I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. "

" Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. "

" Television is democracy at its ugliest. "

" I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker. "

" Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. "