#politics

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources. ↗

— Dan Rather

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists. ↗

— Rich Lowry

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Politics have no relation to morals. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world. ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to. ↗

— Molly Ivins

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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. ↗

— Molly Ivins

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