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Politics

We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain. – Lucy Powell

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster. – Lucy Powell

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable. – Charles Edison

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. – Freeman Dyson

Politics is show business for ugly people. – Paul Begala

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

Politics is a highly tribal business. – Nick Clegg

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence. – Fareed Zakaria

Politics makes me sick. – William Howard Taft

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else. – William Howard Taft

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends – and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate. – David Frum

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. – E. L. Doctorow

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it. – Danica Patrick

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. – Margaret Fuller

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics. – Jack Kemp

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side. – Jack Kemp

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time. – Grover Norquist

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. – Catherine the Great

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war. – Arthur Henderson

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics. – Arthur Henderson