Politics Quotes
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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.
Nancy Astor -
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
William Howard Taft
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There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
William Lloyd Garrison -
If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.
Ben Affleck -
I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.
Andrew VanWyngarden MGMT -
In politics, a conflict only exists in public; otherwise it is merely a potential for conflict, which we can never be certain exists or will materialize.
Kanan Makiya -
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!
Theresa May -
Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.
Jack Layton
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Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
Stone Gossard Pearl Jam -
I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.
Evan Bayh -
Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.
Janet Jackson -
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
William O. Douglas -
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
Alessandro Manzoni
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San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.
Elayne Boosler -
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
William James -
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.
Giovanni Morassutti -
If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.
Blaise Pascal -
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.
Sandy Koufax
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We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.
Raja Krishnamoorthi -
I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.
William E. Gladstone -
Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.
Willem Buiter -
Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.
Nelly