“One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.”
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“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.”
“I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.”
“It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.”
“I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.”
“First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.”
“Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.”
“In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.”
“I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.”
“The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.”
“The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.”
“I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.”
“Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.”
“A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.”
“A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?”
“In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.”
“The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.”
“At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.”
“Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.”
“African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.”
“Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.”
“I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.”
“The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.”
“A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.”