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Political elections are not life and death. -- Rita Mae Brown
I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get. -- Pauly Shore
Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous. -- Mark McKinnon
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. -- Cal Thomas
I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm. -- Tom Stoppard
I do not comment on politics, but I see computerization of the election process as good for stability and social harmony. -- Andrew Tan
I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics. -- Duncan Hunter
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012. -- Steven Rattner
I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course. -- Eric Holder
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. -- Noam Chomsky
Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election. -- Bob Ehrlich
India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency. -- Shashi Tharoor
The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections. -- Larry J. Sabato
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. -- Gerald R. Ford
Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics. -- Roger Ebert
We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning. -- Chuck Todd
Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important. -- Hari Kondabolu
I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although, Modi's style is 'I, me, myself,' I don't think 2014 elections as a Modi versus Rahul contest. -- Jairam Ramesh
The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics. -- Roscoe Conkling
I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night. -- Alton Brown
I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election. -- Danny Strong
I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year. -- Barack Obama
I've been doing politics 30 years. I've never seen an election like this [in 2016]. This is entirely unpredictable. -- Renee Montagne
politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower. -- Geraldine Ferraro
My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election. -- Liev Schreiber
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? -- Barack Obama
Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do. -- Charles Tillman
I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election. -- Pervez Musharraf
I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football. -- Trey Parker
This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends-not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution. -- Charles Krauthammer

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