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" When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics. "

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" In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics. "

Hillary Clinton

" If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit. "

Ethan Zuckerman

" Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. "

" Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently. "

Joseph Stiglitz

" Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. "

Maynard Jackson

" Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians. "

Fletcher Knebel

" It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. "

" Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection. "

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

Theodore Roosevelt

" We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually. "

" I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice. "

" Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. "

" Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. "

" I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn't. I started getting really excited about politics. "

" Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. "

" It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. "

Winston Churchill

" Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "

Charles de Gaulle

" Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. "

Grover Cleveland

" Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball. "

" In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth. "

Marianne Williamson

" How I'd like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn't even care to know the prime minister's name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me. "

" All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. "

" True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity. "

" I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. "

" I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election. "

Pervez Musharraf

" Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good. "

" In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. "

" Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever. "