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“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. ”
— Winston Churchill
“In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.”
— Clare Boothe Luce
“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. ”
— Stendhal
“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.”
— Honore de Balzac
“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”
— Aldous Huxley
“I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. ”
— Lord Byron
“It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. ”
— Robert Redford
“If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign. ”
— George Washington Bush
“I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction. ”
— Hillary Clinton
“I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president. ”
— Hillary Clinton
“In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics. ”
— Hillary Clinton
“The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. ”
— Hillary Clinton
“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. ”
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
“I haven't been very active in politics. ”
— Clint Eastwood
“Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.”
— Stephen King
“Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.”
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
— Groucho Marx
“Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.”
— Groucho Marx
“In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”
— Barack Obama
“There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.”
— Barack Obama
“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.”
— Barack Obama
“The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.”
— Marilyn Manson
“Politics have no relation to morals.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.”
— Michelle Obama
“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.”
— Colin Powell
“Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.”
— Pope John Paul II
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