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I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics.

— Amitabh Bachchan

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

— Bjork

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

— K'naan

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

— Jim Leach

Politics is tricky for me. For most of my life, I didn't think it applied to me.

— Tracee Ellis Ross

Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.

— Donna Brazile

I ended up in Parliament and soon discovered that emotion really doesn't have any place in politics. It's a much more intricate and complicated game, and I just didn't know how to play it.

— Amitabh Bachchan

✗Opposing Perspectives

You can come to a political position from an emotional place.

— Mike White

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

— Kate Millett