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" You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history. "

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" I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. "

David Mamet

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" When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. "

" Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. "

" When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry. "

" Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics. "

" The FARC has given up their arms. They are now a political party. They are now doing politics, which is what a peace process was all about. "

" It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs. "

" And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery. "

" The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. "

" Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. "

" Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness - but it's nevertheless a politics of outrage, animated by at least a trace of envy. It's as if 'millionaires and billionaires' were the principal problem facing America today. "

" In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. "

" We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia. "

" Our job, as writers is to do our jobs. "

" Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous. "

" I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction. "

" We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive. "

" The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. "

" The best politics is no politics. "

Henry M. Jackson

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" I deeply believe - and not just as a matter of politics, but even as a matter of morality - that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. And the last thing we need is government intruding into those personal decisions. "

" Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. "

" What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! "

" The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. "

" It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. "

" If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals. "

" Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup. "

" Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. "

" Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. "

" I've always been fascinated by the picaresque. "

" I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer. "