Politics Quotes
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Politics is like bad cinema — people overact, take it too far. When I speak with politicians, I see this in their facial expressions, their eyes, the way they squint. I look at things like a producer. I would often watch a scene on the monitor, and the director and I would yell, ‘Stop, no more, this is unwatchable! No one will believe this.’
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The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.
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We're about music. We're not about politics.
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When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.
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What we're witnessing really is a political realignment, I mean I think we're moving from a traditional understanding of left-right politics that we've had for a long time.
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I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.
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Outside the world of politics, one person in the world of the arts I would mention as an influence is Nick Cave, another person who has been around since the late 1970s. He has developed and changed remarkably, whilst remaining true to his vision. He has been a great help to me as well, without his knowing it.
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'Game of Thrones' isn't all about magic - it's way more about political scheming and family tensions - but to be a part of this exclusive magic club is actually really cool.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
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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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The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
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I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.
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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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Everyone knows that I have just accepted, with short notice, the worst job in politics.
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Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
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Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.
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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 never believed that politics had a place in art, that is to say, not in artistic relationships.
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The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant-baptism and holy communion-must be denied citizenship.
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Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.
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The refusal of work and authority, or really the refusal of voluntary servitude, is the beginning of liberatory politics.
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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 think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.
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If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target
