Norm MacDonald Quotes
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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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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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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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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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
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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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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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The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.
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Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
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To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.
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I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
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I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.
