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  • Christopher Lasch on politics

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    “The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don’t mix. This is the stock response of the left.” -Christopher Lasch

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  • Henry Adams on politics

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    “Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” -Henry Adams

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  • Harold MacMillan on politics

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    “I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.” -Harold MacMillan

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  • Ai Weiwei on politics

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    “To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.” -Ai Weiwei

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  • Tom Hanks on politics

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    “And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.” -Tom Hanks

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  • John Cusack on politics

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    “When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.” -John Cusack

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  • Jerry Lewis on politics

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    “I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don’t get into it because I do comedy already.” -Jerry Lewis

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  • Tom Tancredo on politics

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    “Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it’s terrible politics. It’s a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.” -Tom Tancredo

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  • Arthur Miller on politics

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    “Without alienation, there can be no politics.” -Arthur Miller

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  • Sachin Tendulkar on politics

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    “I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.” -Sachin Tendulkar

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  • Johnny Vegas on politics

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    “I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he’s never mentioned it – you just find out. That’s a

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  • Tony Blair on politics

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    “I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don’t think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began

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  • Jon Meacham on politics

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    “Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.” -Jon Meacham

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  • Kinky Friedman on politics

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    “Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.” -Kinky Friedman

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  • William Hague on politics

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    “When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.” -William Hague

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  • T. D. Jakes on politics

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    “I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.” -T. D. Jakes

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  • Thomas Frank on politics

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    “Acknowledging class was always difficult for ‘New Democrats’ – it was second-wave, it was divisive – but 2008 made retro politics cool again.” -Thomas Frank

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  • Billy Sunday on politics

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    “After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.” -Billy Sunday

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  • Charles Krauthammer on politics

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    “Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.” -Charles Krauthammer

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  • Van Morrison on politics

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    “These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.” -Van Morrison

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  • David Attenborough on politics

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    “I’m not in politics.” -David Attenborough

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  • Dee Dee Myers on politics

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    “After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.” -Dee Dee Myers

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  • Peter Singer on politics

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    “I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don’t blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.” -Peter Singer

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  • Imelda Marcos on politics

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    “Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn’t stolen.” -Imelda Marcos

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  • Joseph Sobran on politics

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    “Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.” -Joseph Sobran

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