Politics Quotes
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While I'm an athlete and while I'm fighting actively, I don't intend to pursue a career in politics. What happens after that, we'll see. But I don't have an intention to do both at the same time.
Fedor Emelianenko
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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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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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The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.
George Will
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Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse.
Gary Johnson
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Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
Adam Michnik
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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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In politics you learn to always smile.
Eliot Spitzer
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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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You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do men want any of those things that are called political rights and privileges? Why do they, for instance, want to vote at elections for members of parliament? Oh! Because they shall then have an influence over the conduct of those members. And of what use is that? Oh! Then they will prevent the members from doing wrong.
William Cobbett
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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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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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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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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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I think one of the reasons that Arch Enemy gels so well as people and musically is because we all share very similar values when it comes to human rights, animal rights... even politics, religion.
Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
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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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When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.
Nate Lowman
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For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his exitence as a living being in question.
Michel Foucault
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Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.
William Francis Buckley
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In fact in politics, sometimes the thing that will never happen actually starts to happen. And there have to be people who hold out for that, and who accept that they are idealists and that they are operating on principle as opposed to realpolitik.
Judith Butler
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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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The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
William Shakespeare
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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.
J. C. Watts