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It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.

Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.

I have a very clear, genuine vision about what political work should be, what politics and politicians should contribute to the nation.

Social work and politics never go together although the intention behind politics is social work.

Pretending we haven't made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can't see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics.

China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By the same token, the Chinese people, new to the republican politics, must be educated properly. The revolutionary government should be the people's tutor to impart advanced awareness and experience.

Many TV shows these days have rural flavor, but in terms of content, they are all family politics.

By creating a minority quota in lending the government is clearly playing politics and wants to fatten its vote banks, whether or not it makes commercial sense.

There's a lot of division in politics, and that is why I am grateful to be a part of a show like 'Veep.' It makes light of the daunting aspects of the political world.

In politics, when you wake up, you can make out who belongs to which party. In cinema, you cannot make out who belongs where. Everybody looks like your friend.

I am not interested in state politics.

In politics, you have to balance these things: what is good for the country, what is available, and what is possible.

Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

Thatcherism, as an ideology, addresses the fears, the anxieties, the lost identities, of a people. It invites us to think about politics in images. It is addressed to our collective fantasies, to Britain as an imagined community, to the social imaginary.

There's no permanent, fixed class consciousness. You can't work out immediately what people think and what politics they have simply by looking at their socio-economic position.

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.