Nandan Nilekani Quotes
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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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.
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It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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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.
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The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
