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" When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. "

John W. Gardner

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" Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. "

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" It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems. "

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" People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. "

" 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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" I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. "

" Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. "

John F. Kennedy

" But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money. "

" If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. "

John W. Gardner

" Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. "

" I want to point out, there are a lot of politicians who enjoy the political end of politics, but they're not interested in governance. And then, there are some that are really interested in governance and are just terrible at politics. "

" Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for. "

" If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. "

" If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents. "

" The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved. "

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" As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. "

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" You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. "

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" The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. "

Christopher Hitchens

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" First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. "

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