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“I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.”
“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”
“I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of ...”
“Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.”
“Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.”
“The political parties who prefer lockdowns should end their politics that is based on negative attitude.”
“One of the things that's unique about Louisiana politics is that people here have a much more realistic attitude about who their politicians are. They know they are human and not saints or Mormons ...”
“In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”
“No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.”
“There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.”
“Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.”
“Mixing humor and politics is something that works.”
“Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.”
“War is the continuation of politics by other means.”
“Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.”
“I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.”
“War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.”
“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.”
“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murd...”
“Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.”