Politics Quotes
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Metaphysics—objective reality; Epistemology—reason; Ethics—self-interest; Politics—capitalism.
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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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Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public interest, their main qualification: ability.
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Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.
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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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I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.
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I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.
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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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People love honesty, people love sincerity. One of the problems Ukrainian politics has now is a total lack of authenticity.
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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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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
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Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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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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I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.
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Some say this country's just out looking for a fight, after 9/11 man, I'd have to say that's right.
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We're about music. We're not about politics.
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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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You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln and you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why? Because it doesn't fit the image of the Great Emancipator. It doesn't fit the retrospective view we want to have of Lincoln as the man who was the moralist in politics, who came into office committed to ending slavery and waited to sign this document.
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Marijuana is a very dangerous drug. Some people smoke it just once and go directly into politics.
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In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.
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I cannot do politics under someone else's control.
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The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.
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The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.
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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.
