Politics Quotes
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Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.
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I think Lena Dunham, the public figure, is - I hate the word 'brand,' but I'm going to use it - it's such a brand that is so tethered to her public persona and to 'Girls', but also this progressive politics that she's been more vocal about.
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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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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
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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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I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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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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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
