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America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ↗

— David Brooks

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When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas. ↗

— David Brooks

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Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague. ↗

— Max Cannon

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But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics. ↗

— Jane Campion

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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body. ↗

— Joyce Cary

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In politics, guts is all. ↗

— Barbara Castle

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In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. ↗

— Catherine II

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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

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Politics is organized hatred, that is unity. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

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If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

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