Politics Quotes
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Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
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President Obama, right after the Gabby Gifford shooting said we need to usher in a new era of civil discourse in politics. But not heeding his own advice.
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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
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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.
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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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If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target
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I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
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Having a good and cultured family background was not enough to be successful in politics. One should live amidst farmers, till land, and tend cows and buffaloes.
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I'm the daughter of one of the most long-standing senators in politics, and I have been given every opportunity that anyone could possibly dream of. I was given those opportunities as a result of the hard work from both sides of my family.
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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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But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.
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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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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.
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Passions change, politics are immutable.
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In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
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Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.
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Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed.
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POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.
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Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.
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I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.
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In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
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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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The refusal of work and authority, or really the refusal of voluntary servitude, is the beginning of liberatory politics.
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The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
