“I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.”
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“I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.”
“The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.”
“You do the policy, I'll do the politics.”
“Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.”
“War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.”
“An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.”
“Politics disgusts me.”
“I never thought of politics as a profession.”
“I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.”
“I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'”
“Anything's possible in politics.”
“You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.”
“Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.”
“Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.”
“In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.”
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
“Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.”
“You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.”
“Everything is politics.”
“I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.”
“War is the continuation of politics by other means.”
“It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.”
“Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.”