J. B. Smoove Quotes
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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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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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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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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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.
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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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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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Food can change anything.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
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I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
