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Politics

I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do. – Suzanne Farrell

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected. – Charles Kennedy

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else. – Charles Kennedy

Yes, you need substance in politics – but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions. – Charles Kennedy

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics. – Michael Pollan

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. – John B. S. Haldane

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative. – John Key

Politics is gut commercials are gut. – Frank Luntz

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently. – Joseph Stiglitz

Politics makes strange bedfellows. – Charles Dudley Warner

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals. – Elisabeth Shue

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. – Armstrong Williams

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. – Mary McCarthy

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. – James McGreevey

I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts – protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach. – James McGreevey

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion. – James McGreevey

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics. – Bruce Willis

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political. – Abbas Kiarostami

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more. – Rip Torn

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands. – Henry Cabot Lodge