Politics Quotes
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Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.
 Bob Marley
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He was eccentric. He was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics. But Henry Ford's mark in history is almost unbelievable.
 Lee Iacocca
					 
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I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
 Lou Holtz
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I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.
 Silvio Berlusconi
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If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole...
 John Lennon The Beatles
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All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.
 Andrea Mitchell
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Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
 Henry Ward Beecher
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I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.
 Barack Obama
					 
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Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.
 Willie Brown
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[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.
 Kevin Spacey
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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.
 Andy Rooney
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My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.
 William Shakespeare
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Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.
 Mark Steyn
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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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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.
 Janet Jackson
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Pelosi's problem is her spine doesn't reach her brain.
 Liz Cheney
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Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, 'Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.' Surely what's good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.
 Maureen Dowd
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There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.
 William Shakespeare
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It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.
 Malcolm Muggeridge
					 
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Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.
 Hannah Arendt
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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!
 Theresa May
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My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.
 Joel David Moore
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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