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" When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. "

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" When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. "

" Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport. "

" Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "

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" Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. "

" I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. "

" I'll be honest: I haven't ruled politics out. "

" Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop? "

" I'm not a big politics guy. "

" One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008. "

" The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers. "

" I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. "

" The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people. "

" There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion. "

" The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines. "

" The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. "

" Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. "

" Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. "

" Television is democracy at its ugliest. "

" Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. "

" No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. "

" You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle. "

" No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession. "

" That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics. "

" Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. "

" If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species. "

" When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me. "

" It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. "