Politics Quotes
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People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.
Martha Gellhorn
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Unfortunately, Bruce Rauner is more committed to playing politics than fighting for Illinois women and families.
J. B. Pritzker
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
Ed Rendell
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In politics, guts is all.
Barbara Castle
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T. S. Eliot
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Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
William Dwight Whitney
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
Barney Frank
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In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
Yair Lapid
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I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
Sam Wyly
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I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.
Malcolm Turnbull
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
Irvine Welsh
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This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
Beau Willimon
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
Tatyana Tolstaya
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I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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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.
Zygmunt Bauman
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
Taiye Selasi
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I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.
Iris Apfel
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
Orhan Pamuk
