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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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" I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere. "

Robin Coste Lewis

History

Experience

" I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. "

" If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that. "

" Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others. "

Cory Booker

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" Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down. "

Al Franken

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Step

" The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. "

" I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics. "

" Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. "

" Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. "

" We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city. "

" There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency. "

" With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold. "

" I know Donald Trump. I've met him; I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I'm going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president. "

" The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics. "

" My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story. "

" Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. "

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

" Having people that really reflect the spectrum of American experiences is important to have on the Supreme Court. "

" The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; America's minorities; and often, unfortunately, America's vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and addiction and mental health. "

" The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children. "

" What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing. "

" Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did. "

" Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. "

" I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others. "

" It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. "

" I am not a political person, so I cannot comment on politics. "

Andrew Tan

Political

I Am

" What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value. "

" We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny. "

" You do the policy, I'll do the politics. "

" In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship. "