Ivo Daalder Quotes
Putin wants nothing less than to return Russia to the center of global politics by challenging the primacy that the United States has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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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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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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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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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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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
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When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.
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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
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I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
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We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
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Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.
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A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.
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A cherished cause and a general who inspires confidence by previous success are powerful means of electrifying an army.
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BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world.
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything.
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Putin wants nothing less than to return Russia to the center of global politics by challenging the primacy that the United States has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.
