Bertha Knight Landes Quotes
Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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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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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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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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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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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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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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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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There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.
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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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Politics swings like a pendulum.
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There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
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[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.
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If we treated politics like more of a profession, like it should be, we would all be a lot better off.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
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Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.
