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This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.