politics
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘politics’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.” -Aristotle
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“The only politics in this country that’s relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution… none other.” -H. Rap Brown
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“On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.” -Mark Udall
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“We’re seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.” -Patricia Hewitt
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“I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.” -Michael K. Simpson
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“As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now I’m not going to say what they were.” -Julie Christie
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“I don’t find music being less important than, like, politics.” -Kurt Loder
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“There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It’s a difficult game, but it doesn’t have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests – ‘lobbies’ they call them in the States.” -George…
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“Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.” -Dick Morris
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“I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it’s in politics in life in spirituality in business just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it’s amazing the difference that you’ll see.” -Zachary Levi
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“People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don’t take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.” -Whitfield Diffie
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“This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.” -Richard Powers
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“Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or… all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.” -Judd Gregg
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“I call it people-to-people politics and that’s what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we’re going to do.” -Sonny Perdue
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“Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don’t know what that will be yet, but there will be one.” -Gary Ackerman
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“First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot.” -George Crook
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“We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.” -Richard Dreyfuss
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“The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.” -Eric Sevareid
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“Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.” -John Morley
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“Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.” -Robert Teeter
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“I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.” -Ed Gillespie
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“I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.” -Joan Cusack
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“I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.” -Emma Bonino
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“Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.” -James Hansen
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“There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, ‘How can you make a movie during an election that’s about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people’s lives?’ To which my response was, ‘Well, I hope so.’” -John Sayles
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“In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.” -Brian Mulroney
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“Truth is I don’t think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.” -Peter Mullan
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“For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.” -Wilfrid Laurier
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“It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear…’” -Rutherford B. Hayes
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“Living in Washington, you can’t take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don’t believe because they get paid to.” -Tucker Carlson
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“Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you’re going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn’t – now – and this is the honest truth.” -Mel Gibson
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“We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.” -Kjell Magne Bondevik
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“But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel’s job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.” -Fred F. Fielding
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“A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.” -Howard Fineman
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“When you’re young, with less on the line, it’s easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation – politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. – to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.” -Garry Trudeau
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“In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.” -Luke Ford
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“I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don’t know now either.” -Amitabh Bachchan
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“Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it’s not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics – especially if you’re a Republican – or spirituality, it’s just not something people want to hear about.” -Kristin Chenoweth
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“I just worry a lot. I’m a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don’t want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It’s a lot to ask of people, and it’s…
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“I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn’t find my way into the fictional world… When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.” -David Guterson
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“I don’t want to be a politician. I don’t like politics. It’s petty it fights dirty.” -John Mellencamp
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“I mean, the part you don’t like, I mean, that’s the only part. That’s the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that’s also just a fact of life in politics.” -Laura Bush
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“The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.” -Emmeline Pankhurst
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“So my degree was in political science, which I think was – the closest I could come to marketing is politics.” -Steve Case
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“American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.” -Michael Mandelbaum
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“We don’t tend to write about disease in fiction – not just teen novels but all American novels – because it doesn’t fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.” -John Green
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“The thing about American politics, as I’ve learned, is there is no choice.” -Rob Walton
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“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.” -Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“The legions of reporters who cover politics don’t want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.” -Hugh Sidey
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“Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.” -Paul Weyrich
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“It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves’ virtue – something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.” -James Bovard
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“As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.” -Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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“Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.” -Dario Fo
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“I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.” -Judy Collins
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“I think that what I’m doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.” -Eric Holder
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“There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.” -Alastair Campbell
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“Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.” -Terry McAuliffe
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“As I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It’s so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.” -Lauren Graham
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“As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We’re trying constantly to figure out what’s OK and what’s not OK. And it’s hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.” -Daniel H. Wilson
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“Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There’s just too much money.” -Zach Galifianakis
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“About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.” -Howie Carr
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“We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.” -Kate Millett
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“In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.” -Youssou N’Dour
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“We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.” -Bobby Scott
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“Politics isn’t about left versus right it’s about top versus bottom.” -Jim Hightower
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“In politics, there are no friends.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.” -Nicholas D. Kristof
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“Imagine a civilisation that’s way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person’s bizarre politics or religion.” -Paul Davies
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“I never let my politics supersede my manners.” -Darren Criss
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“Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you’ve got to be wise enough to know when to leave.” -Richard Lamm
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“Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that’s what’s happening. They either go, or they don’t go. It’s all politics. It’s all demographics.” -Warren Beatty
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“I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.” -Kevin J. Anderson
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“I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.” -Evan Bayh
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“The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.” -Al Franken
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“I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.” -Moira Kelly
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“The sheep-people don’t think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it’s the gospel truth and they don’t have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don’t go and do their own investigations if it’s relationships or politics or anything.” -Big Boi
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“But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.” -James McGreevey
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“You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I’m not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.” -Dennis Kucinich
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“I just feel like I’m a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.” -Ann Richards
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“You never know what’ll happen in politics.” -Claire McCaskill
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“My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She’s a professor in Boston, and she’s been teaching women’s studies for 30 years and international politics.” -Eliza Dushku
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“I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.” -Bruce Willis
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“I’m not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I’d love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.” -Holly Madison
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“When you come from desperate poverty, and that’s exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I’m not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it’s not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.” -Johnny Rotton
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“Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who’s going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it’s more powerful than religion. So it’s going to have to be the vigilante consumer.” -Anita Roddick
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“Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.” -James MacGregor Burns
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“The gays like ‘Project Runway’ because it’s a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It’s a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That’s just like the culture. We’re not all into politics necessarily. We’re more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a…
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“I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.” -Abbas Kiarostami
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“I always wanted to work at ‘Take A Break’ magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I’d done my law degree and didn’t even get an interview. I only wrote ‘Garnethill’ because I didn’t get that job!” -Denise Mina
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“Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.” -Rip Torn
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“We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.” -Henry Cabot Lodge
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“Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it’s all about what fuels my soul and if I’m passionate about a screenplay then that’s what I’ll do next.” -Shailene…
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“I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don’t waste anytime thinking about future elections until we’ve done our jobs here.” -Bob Riley
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“I’ve done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.” -Frank Luntz
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“Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.” -Joseph Stiglitz
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“Even if we don’t know it or aren’t aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.” -Roland Joffe
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“Politics makes strange bedfellows.” -Charles Dudley Warner
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“I’m interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don’t watch politics for sport.” -Anna Chlumsky
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“On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn’t left to the wealthy and privileged.” -Martin Sheen
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“Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.” -Elisabeth Shue
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“In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.” -Armstrong Williams
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“In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.” -Mary McCarthy
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“If we tried to write about politics, you’d realize that we’re all a bunch of idiots.” -Mark Hoppus
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“My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I’m getting into. I’ll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it’ll…
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“Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven’t done or some place that I’ve never been or don’t even know. It’s just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.” -Hilary Duff
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“Music shouldn’t be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.” -Jerry Only
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“Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.” -Charles Kennedy
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“I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it’s subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.” -Mira Nair
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“There’s a rule of thumb in politics. If you’re at a point where you’re complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that’s probably a sign that you’re losing.” -Laura Ingraham
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“I know my limitations, and I don’t like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.” -Corazon Aquino
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“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.” -Susan George
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“I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.” -Suzanne Farrell
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“I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn’t matter who was president.” -James Carville
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“I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn’t exist about America.” -Tim Scott
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“The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.” -Michael Pollan
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“Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.” -John B. S. Haldane
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“Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that’s another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.” -Jennifer M. Granholm
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“In so much of politics you’re not allowed to disagree with what’s been agreed.” -Iain Banks
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“I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn’t go into it, because it’s demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.” -John Key
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“It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.” -Angela Davis
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“I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.” -Molly Ivins
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“You should never ask actors about politics.” -Liev Schreiber
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“There’s a couple things you don’t talk about in life, and that’s race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don’t talk about politics at all.” -Robert Griffin III
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“The TUC’s new slogan ‘a future that works’ sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.” -Frances O’Grady
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“Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.” -Ridley Scott
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“I am not at all a politician. I don’t think I’m cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.” -Pervez Musharraf
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“I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.” -Paul Nurse
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“I’m not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.” -Kathleen Turner
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“Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.” -Polly Toynbee
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“My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.” -Antonio Tabucchi
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“All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.” -Godfrey Reggio
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“When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.” -Bill Frist
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“Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.” -Francis Parker Yockey
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“I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.” -Simon Cowell
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“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.” -Wendell Phillips
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“Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.” -Mitch McConnell
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“Politics is the science of urgencies.” -Theodore Parker
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“I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I’m offering myself as the alternative PM – that’s one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition – but I’m not in politics for myself to realize a personal…
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“I don’t want to force my politics on my readers.” -John Grisham
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“I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.” -Marat Safin
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“President Obama chose politics over leadership. ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ have become bait-and-switch.” -Lindsey Graham
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“Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.” -Todd Gitlin
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“Well Australia’s been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics.” -Kevin Rudd
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“Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he’s always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that’s what makes him Newt Gingrich.” -Gary Bauer
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“No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.” -Evander Holyfield
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“There’s not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they’re serving.” -Gail Simmons
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“Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.” -George Will
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“Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.” -C. Northcote Parkinson
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“This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.” -Brad Henry
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“Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.” -Grover Norquist
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“In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.” -Wallace Shawn
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“I’m not taking any interest in politics. I’m not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.” -Jeffrey Archer
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“The movies were custard compared to politics.” -Nancy Reagan
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“The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.” -Terry Eagleton
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“Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.” -Don Rickles
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“There’s a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies – the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don’t like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It’s not the coin of the realm in politics.” -Ed Koch
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“In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960’s.” -Jim Lehrer
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“Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. ‘Don’t bother us with politics’, respond those who don’t want to learn.” -Richard Stallman
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“American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.” -Bob Schieffer
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“Does politics have to be injected into everything?” -Sargent Shriver
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“Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.” -Peggy Noonan
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“Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.” -David Frum
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“My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.” -David Miliband
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“Politicians… talk in generalities and lies, and I think they’ve caused all our grief. They’re so awful, they’re really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.” -Paul Lynde
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“Politics is pop. Our job as comedians – especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience – is to amplify what we think America is thinking.” -Jimmy Fallon
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“The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.” -Konrad Adenauer
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“Short of being prime minister there isn’t a better job in British politics than running London.” -Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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“Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.” -Lester B. Pearson
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“I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.” -Helen Gahagan
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“I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.” -Kathie Lee Gifford
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“The essential ingredient of politics is timing.” -Pierre Trudeau
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