Politics Quotes
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I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
Al Pacino
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But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.
Bruce Sterling
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
Plato
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I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.
Michael Kelly
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I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.
William A. Clark
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Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
Lewis H. Lapham
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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
William Shakespeare
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It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
Louise Erdrich
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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
William Shakespeare
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Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality.
Marianne Williamson
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There has been a fundamental change in the paradigm of politics today. I don't think Republicans even realize this.
Eric Massa
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A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
William Randolph Hearst
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The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
William Francis Buckley
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Some say let's not give them too much power. But we need power to do the things we believe in and change Israeli politics. In coalition talks, we don't want to have to compromise on what we believe in.
Tzipi Livni
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Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.
Flannery O'Connor
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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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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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The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.
Marianne Williamson
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Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.
Wladimir Klitschko
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There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.
Kiefer Sutherland
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But there is something seriously problematic about radicals and progressives in American politics. Some say it's the two-party system that squashes third parties. Some say that it's the potentiality or expanse of the middle class that marginalizes people that want to reform the system itself. Some make a sort of psychological analysis, that the left doesn't want to win, that success means co-optation. All of those things have some merit.
B. R. Hayden
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
Jasper Fforde
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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
Joyce Cary