Politics Quotes
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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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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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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Without ideology, and with nothing but jobs for the boys at stake, party politics was losing its raison d’être, and trust in the old democratic order could no longer be taken for granted.
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Politics won't allow for the truth.
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
