Politics Quotes
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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, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.
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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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If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.
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Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.
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In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.
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In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.
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Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
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In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
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in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.
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One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.
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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
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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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History is past politics, and politics is present history.
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Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
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One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.
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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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The refusal of work and authority, or really the refusal of voluntary servitude, is the beginning of liberatory politics.
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
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A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do. Nothing else much matters, there is no complicated diplomacy, when a child is starving. It's simple. And we'd better do something about it. For our sakes, too. That is, if we want to continue to call ourselves human.
