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The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie. ↗

— Theodore White

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Politics in America is the binding secular religion. ↗

— Theodore White

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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. ↗

— George Will

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. ↗

— George Will

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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. ↗

— George Will

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In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it. ↗

— Saul Williams

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