Politics Quotes
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It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else.
Walter Kirn
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Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
Billy Joel
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Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he saw no evidence of any such outpouring of anger.
Erik Larson
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Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
Salman Rushdie
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Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.
Cameron Russell
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I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William Francis Buckley
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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
Saint Augustine
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Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
Adam Michnik
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How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing? Roosevelt was cripple, Lincoln was a geek, they'd never get elected, their clothes were never chic.
Don McLean
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I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.
Elayne Boosler
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Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.
Steve Winwood Blind Faith
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The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.
George Will
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In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.
Gary Lineker
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The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
William Shakespeare
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No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.
William James
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Idea is a noble one — an idea that fills and expands all generous souls; the idea of equality — the equality of all men before human tribunals and human laws, as they all are equal before the Divine tribunal and Divine laws.
William H. Seward
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Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!
William E. Gladstone
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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
Mahatma Gandhi
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After Charlottesville, our politics have now borne witness to a U.S. president at times openly defending neo-Nazis and white supremacists before condemning them.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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In politics you learn to always smile.
Eliot Spitzer
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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich. Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
Robert Frost
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Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.
Daniel Barenboim