Politics Quotes
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I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet communists we fought during the long Cold War.
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I've chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could have gone the other way, but I'm not sorry that it didn't, because this made it easier to be home with my kids and to spend time with them. Writing you can do right in your house. You don't have to go anywhere.
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When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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The call to public service is stronger than the politics of fear, ... I'm going to take back this seat in the 9th District.
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Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him
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The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas that I have little to add. I also like to steer clear of writing about people whom I do not personally like.
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The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
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The best politics is right action.
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Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.
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Culture is more important than politics and government.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
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Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.
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If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.
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There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.
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If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
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If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this. The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should.
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I think it's incredibly important to vote because politics is for the people, and we shouldn't leave it just to the parties because then we're in some kind of helpless society where you have no say in anything and in things that are going to affect you. Government was formed to represent the people, but if you don't vote, then you're not being represented.
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The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.
