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You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is that you start to forget about cars and jobs and families and weather and politicians - and all the things that make up a society. Chelsea Manning

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If you construct political narratives around the psychodramas of politicians, even when they don't invite it, you open the way for those who can play this game more effectively. George Monbiot

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We critique all politicians who are in power, whenever there’s a talking point. Varun Grover

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Not only generals can be politicians, and not only generals can be defense ministers. Ayelet Shaked

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I think we've lost the idea that politicians are part of the humanities. And we think of them as part of a natural science tradition, and we don't expect them to have the contact with literature, with history, with the richness of descriptive language that the humanities have always stood for. And I think that's a great loss. Martha Nussbaum

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A willingness by politicians to say what they think the public want to hear, and a willingness by large parts of the public to believe what they are told by populist politicians, has led to a deterioration in our public discourse. David Gauke

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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. P. J. O'Rourke

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Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to the college's incentives, and more capacious and unifying majorities are born. Ross Douthat

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If all political parties are committed to the role of the free market, the politicians act as, I don't know, as traffic policemen; they stand outside the ring and let the real decisions be slugged out by entrepreneurs. That doesn't seem to me a proper democracy. Ken Loach

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The British are a people who are generally happy, under normal circumstances, to trust politicians to tell us the truth and to leave them to run the country as we get on with our lives. But we reserve the right, always, to make it clear that they are our servants, not our masters, and, when necessary, we can and will take charge. Gina Miller

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The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government. Thomas Watson, Jr.

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One of the things I hate about politicians, I shouldn't say I hate things, but one of the things I hate about politics is people who repeat the same talking point over and over and over again. Elizabeth May

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Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people. Jess Phillips

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We have what we call ‘fake left' politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him. Ken Loach

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The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle. George E. Brown, Jr.

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Politicians never keep all their promises. Michael Moore

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