Politics Quotes
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Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.
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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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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
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Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
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Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
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Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
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Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
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Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.
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The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.
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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.
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Politics remained archaically unchanged in 1999. America was economically strong but morally complacent. It was a year of evil in many ways - another great year for cartooning.
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People love honesty, people love sincerity. One of the problems Ukrainian politics has now is a total lack of authenticity.
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I have no problem playing anyone who has different politics than me. In fact, I don't take that into consideration at all. You have to find something sympathetic in a man. It's that common ground you need to connect with someone.
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In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
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You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.
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Have you forgotten when those towers fell, we had neighbors still inside. And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden, have you forgotten?
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I don't believe there are climate skeptics. I think there are people who indulge in a culture of what can be reduced to Fox network thinking. That has nothing to do with the politics that apply to the protection of quality of life in any sense. It's like talking to a member of a cult.
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If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.
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We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.
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Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition
