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I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me. – George Papandreou

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships – that made me feel that we had to change this country. – George Papandreou

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future. – Dick Morris

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. – Richard Powers

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or… all the day-to-day press and the talk shows. – Judd Gregg

First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot. – George Crook

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal. – Richard Dreyfuss

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something. – Eric Sevareid

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. – Mark Udall

The modern conservative is engaged in one of mans oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. – John Kenneth Galbraith

If voting changed anything, theyd make it illegal. – Emma Goldman

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they dont ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. – Nelson Mandela

There aint no answer. There aint gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. Thats the answer. – Gertrude Stein

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. – P. J. ORourke

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because weve been ignorant of their value. – R. Buckminster Fuller

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politicians objective. Election and power are. – Cal Thomas

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago its a sport. – Dick Gregory

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President Im beginning to believe it. – Clarence Darrow

Americas present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration. – Warren G. Harding

If you dont like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you dont like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you dont like me, 90 cents. – Edward Koch