Politics Quotes
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To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.
Jean Chretien -
Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.
Cedric the Entertainer
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Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
Bernard Crick -
In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.
Napoleon III -
The American people are really kind of tired of this finger-pointing issue and politics all the time, ... I think it would behoove all of us to work together to try to find the answers.
Dennis Hastert -
A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
Richard Reeves -
We are not entering into politics to acquire power.
Arvind Kejriwal -
Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.
Vladimir Putin
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Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.
Sean O'Casey -
Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have done well enough in the forthcoming Dutch elections to hold the balance of power in that country's parliament. But it is the widespread Jew-baiting that best reveals that Europeans are evidently incapable of learning from their history. France is the outright prizewinner where anti-Semitism is concerned.
David Pryce-Jones -
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
William James -
One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.
Avi Lewis -
A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.
William Francis Buckley -
Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.
Nina Easton
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If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.
William Graham Sumner -
Marijuana is a very dangerous drug. Some people smoke it just once and go directly into politics.
Barry Crimmins -
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.
Wright Patman -
I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
Hillary Clinton -
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone -
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
Milton Friedman
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Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.
Everett Dirksen -
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
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.
Leon Trotsky -
Everything in politics is so stage-managed.
Ben Miller