“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
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“In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.”
— Clare Boothe Luce
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“So my degree was in political science, which I think was – the closest I could come to marketing is politics.”
— Steve Case
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“This idea that once you get into politics… you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error – and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.”
— Matt Gonzalez
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“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
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“Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system – like our physical existence – still breaks down along geographical lines.”
— Eric Alterman
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“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.”
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
— Jacob Bronowski
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“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”
— E. B. White
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“If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?”
— George Orwell
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