#politics

Politics is the enemy of the imagination. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. ↗

— Bill Moyers

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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

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I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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