#politics

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#current #i #interested #policy #politics

Hope springs eternal, even in politics. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#even #hope #politics #springs

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#many #ny times #once #only #politics

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#anything #confine #entirely #going #i

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#british people #coalition #doubted #election #five

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#architecture #british #certainties #cling #completely

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#crushed #describe #down #elite #highly

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#chief #every #exercises #magistrate #public

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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