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Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness - but it's nevertheless a politics of outrage, animated by at least a trace of envy. It's as if 'millionaires and billionaires' were the principal problem facing America today.

A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'

I like to think of myself as an active American in our politics, but I get lost sometimes watching everything.

I don't know a lot about politics.

The fact is that politics in Illinois is a blood sport. It's really rough. It's really nasty.

Biden can talk about politics not needing to be a raging fire. But it is.

Politics disgusts me.

Democrats should have learned in 2016 that what counts in American politics is location, not turnout.

A lot of people don't know this about me but actually I started in politics.

Mr. Trump is changing American politics forever and his leadership and strength are desperately needed.

I don't play politics.

I grew up around politics. I organized my first campaign when I was 14, a walk-out in my high school to protest the year-round school schedule.

The opportunism of electoral politics makes people lie to each other.

The folks that are suggesting Occupy move to electoral politics are ignoring history, ignoring what actually creates change. People get involved in electoral politics because they think there is no movement that can create change.

Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.

People know my name. Name recognition is very important in politics.

The wrestling business and politics are both full-contact sports.

In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

You have to have a sense of humor about all of it - the Emmys and politics and everything.