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" When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice, you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale. "

Trevor Noah

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

" 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. "

Marianne Williamson

" Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. "

" The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. "

" I never let my politics supersede my manners. "

" Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

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" I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics. "

" I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for two teams. "

" I want my audience to be my friends - that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won't get the best show. "

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

" My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. "

" The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. "

" For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. "

" I'm a quarterback. I don't need to score the touchdown. I just need to spot the pass. "

" Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. "

" Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture. "

" The ballot is stronger than the bullet. "

" The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. "

" Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example. "

" I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. "

Christopher Hitchens

" Politics and ethics belong to different worlds. "

" 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. "

" Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate. "

" My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics. "

" Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics. "

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

" There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. "