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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

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It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there. ↗

— John Hughes

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Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

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Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

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Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say. ↗

— Thierry Henry

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If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. ↗

— Edward S. Herman

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I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

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I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers. ↗

— John Hewson

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I'm not tied to any particular political line. ↗

— John Hewson

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