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Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

Politics makes me sick.

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.

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.