“Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.”
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“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.”
“Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.”
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.”
“First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.”
“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.”
“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”
“If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.”
“I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.”
“From politics, it was an easy step to silence.”
“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
“As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.”
“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.”
“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”
“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.”
“There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.”
“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.”
“Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.”
“Politics are not the task of a Christian.”
“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.”
“In Pakistan politics is hereditary.”
“There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.”
“It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.”
“What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.”