Eugene McCarthy Quotes
In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
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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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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of 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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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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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I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
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To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.
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Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
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I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.
