Politics Quotes
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
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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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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
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Politics won't allow for the truth.
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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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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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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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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As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
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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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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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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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Ted Kennedy's inspiration will loom large over our politics for years to come, uplift us in the healthcare fight, and help to achieve his dream of liberty and justice for all.
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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.
