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" When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. "

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" All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us. "

" Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt. "

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

Theodore Roosevelt

" Term limits aren't enough. We need jail. "

" The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. "

" There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics. "

" My ignorance is widespread. "

" Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do. "

" Gender used to be a barrier for women to overcome if they wanted to be in politics, but today in Taiwan the situation is somewhat different. I think there is even a preference for a woman candidate, and in local elections, we have seen that younger, better-educated female candidates are overwhelmingly preferred by the voters. "

" I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works. "

" There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. "

" On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. "

" The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. "

Lysander Spooner

" A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer! "

" I am unboreable in the great outdoors. "

" Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box. "

" In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. "

Charles de Gaulle

" I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it. "

" 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. "

" Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters. "

" We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this. "

" Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. "

" Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. "

Pope John Paul II

" I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about. "

" A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics. "

Marianne Williamson

" Hubris is one of the great renewable resources. "

" The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war. "

" I've always championed women in politics. We just get stuck in; politics isn't a game. The decisions we make affect people's lives, and that is something we must all keep to the forefront of our minds. "

" Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers. "