Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.
Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.
The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
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