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" Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. "

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" When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. "

Clarence Darrow

" I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. "

Abraham Lincoln

" I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people. "

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" Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man. "

" Good government is good politics. "

Richard J. Daley

" Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics. "

" Without alienation, there can be no politics. "

" A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money. "

" In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth. "

Marianne Williamson

" Space has always been confusing to politics. "

" Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. "

" We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism. "

Walter Cronkite

" American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean. "

" I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. "

" Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Voting is a civic sacrament. "

Theodore Hesburgh

" Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.' "

" In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life. "

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

" Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. "

" What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? "

" A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. "

" Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect. "

" There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal. "

Condoleezza Rice

" Politics ruins the character. "

Otto von Bismarck

" The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. "

" I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. "

" It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.' "

Malcolm Turnbull

" We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. "

Martin L. Gross

" People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. "

" The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. "