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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“I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.” -Rick Warren
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“I don’t follow politics much.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn’t exactly win us any friends.” -Fred Frith
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“Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be ‘old-time gospel preaching.’ This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.” -Tony Campolo
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“Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.” -Joseph Sobran
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“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.” -Mao Zedong
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“The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.” -Michael Bloomberg
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“The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.” -John Jay Chapman
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“Politics is just show business for ugly people.” -Jay Leno
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“I honestly believe that there’s an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.” -Herman Cain
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“One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It’s usually advised by consultants who don’t want to see you march to the end of a limb.” -Elizabeth Edwards
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“We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.” -Bob Ehrlich
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“I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.” -LL Cool J
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“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.” -Jacob Bronowski
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“I’m not a politician and don’t want any part of politics.” -Calvin Klein
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“Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible.” -Ben Okri
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“I think politics come out of psychology.” -Bruce Springsteen
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“And you don’t want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.” -Billie Joe Armstrong
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“In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.” -Clare Boothe Luce
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“Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you’re looking for morals in politics you’re looking for bananas in the cheese department.” -Harry Shearer
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“I know I’m not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I’m famous.” -Cher
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“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.” -Mario Puzo
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“Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.” -John Breaux
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“You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.” -Bono
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“It’s a big deal for me to say I’m over politics.” -Shirley MacLaine
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“I think politics is important. It’s how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don’t understand why some people don’t.” -Chester Brown
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“This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.” -John Podhoretz
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“We mean by ‘politics’ the people’s business – the most important business there is.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“It’s an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.” -Robert Redford
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“I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.” -Benjamin Carson
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“The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.” -John Cornyn
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“I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It’s just a weakness that we human beings have for control – we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.” -Dave Davies
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“Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.” -Saul Alinsky
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“It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.” -Khaleda Zia
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“War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.” -Alfred Adler
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“I never thought of politics as a profession.” -Georgios A. Papandreou
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“I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‘Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.’” -David Byrne
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“Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn’t know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood…
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“Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.” -Newt Gingrich
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“My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“The ‘democracy gap’ in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the ‘least worst’ gets worse.” -Ralph Nader
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“It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“I don’t really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.” -Marco Rubio
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“In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
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“At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.” -Shirley Chisholm
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“No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.” -Hannah Arendt
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“I voted for Barack because he was black. ‘Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people – because they look like them… That’s American politics, pure and simple.” -Samuel L. Jackson
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“A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.” -Peter Jennings
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“I don’t know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It’s very much about the class structure.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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“War is the ultimate tool of politics.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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“A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.” -Robert Byrne
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“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.” -Richard M. Nixon
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“I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.” -Michelle Obama
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“In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.” -Donald Rumsfeld
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“Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it’s all about what’s good for the party and not necessarily what’s good for the country.” -Ricardo Montalban
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“The term ‘the American Left’ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“I’ve always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.” -Jerry Saltz
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“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.” -Paul Valery
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“I hate politics. It’s slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don’t like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you’re not on my side, you’re the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.” -Mark Cuban
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“To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment – especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.” -Paul Ryan
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“Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.” -Demetri Martin
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“There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.” -Thomas Huxley
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“I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.” -Henry Rollins
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“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.” -H. G. Wells
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“Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.” -Stendhal
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“A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don’t want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous ‘girl power’ sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it’s a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind…
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“Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.” -Jonathan Swift
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“Politics are not the task of a Christian.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn’t have previously.” -Marilyn Manson
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“There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.” -Alan Clark
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“It’s like being at the kids’ table at Thanksgiving – you can put your elbows on it, you don’t have to talk politics… no matter how old I get, there’s always a part of me that’s sitting there.” -John Hughes
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“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” -Henry A. Kissinger
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“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” -Charles de Gaulle
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“When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.” -Herbert Hoover
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“Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.” -Colin Powell
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“Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.” -Doug Coupland
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“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.” -George Jean Nathan
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“You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” -Pericles
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“If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.” -George W. Bush
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“I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.” -Jackie Robinson
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“I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.” -Lord Byron
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“From politics, it was an easy step to silence.” -Jane Austen
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“We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.” -Stephen King
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“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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“The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.” -Vladimir Lenin
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“Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there.” -Orson Welles
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“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.” -James Russell Lowell
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“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.” -Honore de Balzac
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“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” -Charles Bukowski
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“Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.” -Edmund Burke
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“Half a truth is better than no politics.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“War has rules, mud wrestling has rules – politics has no rules.” -Ross Perot
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“If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?” -George Orwell
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“I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.” -Hillary Clinton
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“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.” -T. S. Eliot
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“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!” -William Blake
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“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.” -Maria Montessori
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“Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.” -Marshall McLuhan
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“Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.” -Mason Cooley
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“Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.” -George McGovern
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“One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.” -Alexander Hamilton
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“In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.” -John Adams
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“We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.” -Hubert H. Humphrey
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“Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.” -Frank Zappa
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“I haven’t been very active in politics.” -Clint Eastwood
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“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.” -Booker T. Washington
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“We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.” -Donald Trump
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“The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.” -Mitt Romney
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“Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.” -Groucho Marx
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“The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.” -Hunter S. Thompson
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“Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.” -Erma Bombeck
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“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.” -Walt Whitman
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“Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don’t understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn’t a business.” -Malcolm Forbes
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“I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.” -Ray Bradbury
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“Freedom isn’t free. It shouldn’t be a bragging point that ‘Oh, I don’t get involved in politics,’ as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn’t insist on their right…
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“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.” -Aldous Huxley
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“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.” -Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.” -Anthony de Mello
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“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” -Thomas Sowell
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“Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.” -Nelson Mandela
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“Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.” -Ronald Reagan
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“Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.” -Robert Frost
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“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.” -Winston Churchill
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“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.” -Meg Greenfield
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“We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.” -Martin L. Gross
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“After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.” -George C. Wallace
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“Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.” -Dick Durbin
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“You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.” -Johnny Isakson
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“It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.” -Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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“Television is democracy at its ugliest.” -Paddy Chayefsky
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“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.” -Albert Einstein
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“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.” -Grover Cleveland
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“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.” -Alphonse de Lamartine
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“So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.” -Roger Nash Baldwin
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“Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.” -Spiro T. Agnew
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“When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.” -Maggie Gallagher
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“Voting is a civic sacrament.” -Theodore Hesburgh
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“In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.” -J. William Fulbright
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“I was a woman in a man’s world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.” -Jeane Kirkpatrick
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“Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving.” -Robertson Davies
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“When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.” -Charles de Secondat
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“It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.” -Abba Eban
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“And after I make a lot of money, I’ll be able to afford running for office.” -Christy Romano
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“I always voted at my party’s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.” -William Gilbert
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“I can’t let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.” -Gerhard Schroder
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