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Politics is all a matter of timing.

You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.

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.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process.

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.