Politics Quotes
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I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.
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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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The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
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The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.
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Politics is compromise.
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When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
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The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
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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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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
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The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
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Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.
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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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One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.
