Politics Quotes
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I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you.
Wendy Davis
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Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.
Fabrizio Moreira
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I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
Eliot Spitzer
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I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
Patricia Hewitt
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I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
Park Geun-hye
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
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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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My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.
Naguib Sawiris
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As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.
Ibrahim Rugova
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I follow politics very closely. I read several newspapers every day.
Fernando Botero
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John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
Wally Schirra
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.
Jackie Speier
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
P. J. O'Rourke
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
Nate Silver
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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
Nate Silver
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
P. J. O'Rourke
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Ed Koch
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'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.
Edmund White
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I don't think we have the right haircut or tattoos for politics.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
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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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War is, in fact, an extension of politics, and in any war, military operations have to be conducted in such a way that they contribute to sustainable political outcomes consistent with vital interests that are at stake in that war.
H. R. McMaster