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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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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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
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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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If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.
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If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.
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I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.
