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“People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.”

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Book:What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Source: What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

“I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.”

“Bush's life is that a fundamentally decent man presided over a moment when politics got meaner and rougher. '88 was the year of the handler, of bringing in political consultants who played very hard and very tough.”

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Author:Evan Thomas

“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

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Author:A. P. Herbert

“Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .”

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Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.”

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Author:Chester A. Arthur

“The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.”

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Author:Rose Macaulay

“To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.”

“It's important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly sinking into contempt. In every country in which a strong political life is manifested, the secularisation of politics is the consequence. Each stage of that movement has been initiated and effected by those who are most indifferent to dogmatic theology, and each has been opposed by those who are most occupied with theology.”

Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe