Politics Quotes
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Neutrality is not politics.
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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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I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.
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We want Ollie to go to all the different events and see Republicans and see Bernie Sanders and just kind of experience it and be able to make up his own mind for what he wants, none of his friends know anything about politics. Granted, they're only 9, they don't vote for a while. They just completely don't understand why are all these people coming to New Hampshire, why this is so important.
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Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
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These were the Sophists, and their interest was in teaching the use of argumentative skills of the sort previous philosophers had exhibited, but as a means of attaining worldly success, for instance in politics. Unfortunately, they gained a reputation for being rather cynical and unscrupulous in their argumentative standards: any old argument would do as long as it persuaded one’s listener, even if it was totally fallacious; what mattered was winning the debate, not arriving at the truth, and the line between logic and rhetoric was thus blurred.
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
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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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The Federal Reserve is the overlord of the money supply. If these two are not steering in the same direction, they can either neutralize each other or have the economy lurching in all directions. This is not a rational system for setting economic policy. It has given us trouble in the past, as the text will establish, and will inevitably in the future.
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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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Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
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Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
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In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
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We're about music. We're not about politics.
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The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.
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Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
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If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.
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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 have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
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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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I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.
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Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.
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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.
