#politics

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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

— James Stockdale

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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on. ↗

— Helen Gahagan

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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. ↗