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I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love. -- Shane Claiborne
I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics. -- Ed Gillespie
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood. -- Tariq Ramadan
It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her. -- Dee Dee Myers
I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done. -- Ron Conway
A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed the Moral Majority as a vehicle for conservative Christians to muscle their way into national politics. -- Nina Easton
The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving. -- Peggy Noonan
Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. -- Eric Liu
One thing I've been thinking about is taking the social issues out of national politics. For example, if Georgia wanted abortion and Alabama didn't, that's going to be up to the people in Georgia. I can't sway them. Would I give them advice not to? Absolutely. Would I say it's wrong? Yes. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle. -- Dan Bartlett
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions. -- Robert Dallek
Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. -- Thomas Sowell
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politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower. -- Geraldine Ferraro
It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares. -- John Darnielle
REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next. -- Ambrose Bierce
It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us. -- Brian Aldiss
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority. -- Michael Ignatieff
Chris Christie's rise in politics in New Jersey, in many ways, was built on his takedown of Charles Kushner. He got national headlines for that prosecution. -- Steve Kornacki
God's principles of national transformation will give the opportunity to make positive changes in the country, overcoming crisis in politics, economy, social services and other spheres. -- Sunday Adelaja
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian. -- Alberto Manguel

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