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I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.
John Key
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.
Daniel H. Wilson
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.
Donald Rumsfeld
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
Calvin Trillin
I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
Demetri Martin
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
Caroline Kennedy
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.
John Jay Chapman
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
Robert Carlyle
I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.
Jane Goodall
There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Vladimir Lenin
Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.
Kristin Chenoweth
One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
Terry Pratchett
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
Dee Dee Myers
