Politics Quotes
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Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.
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I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.
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Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
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A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
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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.
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Politics is far more complicated than physics.
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Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
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If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.
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Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.
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Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
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Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.
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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.
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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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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.
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America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.
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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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Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
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To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.
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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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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.
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Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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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.
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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.
