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Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

Good government is good politics.

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

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.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

Politics is the art of the next best.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.