Nicole Avant (Nicole A. Avant) Quotes
I remember my dad supporting everyone on the local and national level. I was pretty much born into it. I saw the importance of politics firsthand. It gave you a chance to be at the table.Nicole Avant
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall -
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 -
If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
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.'
Malcolm Turnbull -
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 -
Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields -
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
Beau Willimon -
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Carl Sandburg -
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger -
I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
Ralph Baer
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
Ted Cruz -
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Zedong -
Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
Olympia Snowe -
Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai
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My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.
Alvin Lee -
It was always intended, though, that where Australian workers could negotiate better benefits as well with their employer, that those benefits come in in addition to the existing paid parental leave scheme.
Chris Bowen -
I don't have any real "process." Some people in Nashville go in like an assembly line. They're able to go and write. My son runs a publishing company. He has writers that come down. They get together in a room with the people that actually make appointments, and write - which is great. I can't do that very well.
Charlie Daniels -
People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them!
Sean Connery -
I remember my dad supporting everyone on the local and national level. I was pretty much born into it. I saw the importance of politics firsthand. It gave you a chance to be at the table.
Nicole Avant