“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
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“So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.”
— Alastair Campbell
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“Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.”
— Charles Edison
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“We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.”
— Henry Cabot Lodge
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“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.”
— Winston Churchill
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“War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.”
— Karl Von Clausewitz
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“Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
— Henry Adams
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“First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.”
— John Avlon
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“In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.”
— Nate Silver
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“He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”
— Winston Churchill
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