Politics Quotes
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No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
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Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?
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It's a good line to say we're going to get money out of politics. I don't know how realistic it is.
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Architecture is politics.
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One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
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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.
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I make movies. I'm not in politics.
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They learned how to put up a pretty good bluff—and bluff counts a lot in politics.
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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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Marijuana is a very dangerous drug. Some people smoke it just once and go directly into politics.
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The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
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Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.
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A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.
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If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.
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What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
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There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.
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Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?
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It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.
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Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.
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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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Everything in politics is so stage-managed.
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Ever since the field of biology emerged in the United States and Europe at the start of the nineteenth century, it has been bound up in debates over sexual, racial, and national politics. And as our social viewpoints have shifted, so has the science of the body.
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I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
