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The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.

Elliot Richardson

Government

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Ann Richards

Politics

Sisters

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

Helen Reddy