Politics Quotes
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
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People don't care anymore because they don't believe in us; they don't trust us. And that's why we should change politics, not just accept the cynical frame that, 'Well, that's just politics.'
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
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Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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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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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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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
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You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
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Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.
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Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
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Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
