“Politics ruins the character.”
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politics
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“Politics is the art of the possible.”
“There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.”
“But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.”
“When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.”
“If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.”
“I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.”
“There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.”
“It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.”
“Politics is not about money.”
“Politics is not about power.”
“Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.”
“We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.”
“If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.”
“Look, there ought to be politics in politics.”
“The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.”
“Negative politics have always been around.”
“I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.”
“I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.”
“One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.”
“I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.”
“Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.”
“Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.”
“In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.”