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.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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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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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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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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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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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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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.
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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.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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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.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.
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African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Barack Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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Houston, we have a good deploy. Chandra is ready to open the eyes of X-ray astronomy to the world.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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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.
