Politics Quotes
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The general will is always right.
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There can come a time when change is so cataclysmic that it changes the fundamentals of how we do our politics.
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The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.
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It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.
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The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.
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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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The crows demur at first, but soon grow bold and eat. He talks to them. He tells them of all the things that bother him—that the politics have changed but the politicians are still the same exact people as back in the sixties, only balder and fatter; he tells them that nobody cares about anything important anymore. He tells them that freedom has nothing to do with money, or the McDonald’s restaurants. The crows stop eating and listen.
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Politics isn't about helping people, it's about maintaining whatever people have got, whatever it takes to maintain their position at the expense of us.
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Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.
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Passions change, politics are immutable.
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You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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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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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really saying something else. "Hey guys, come, I'll take you a football match." They all come - and you suddenly take them to watch theater play on the stage instead. In Istanbul Istanbul, I pretend to talk about torture and politics, but I don't actually. Instead I talk about hope and hopelessness, darkness and light, good and evil, love and separation.
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Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.
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And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
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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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The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.
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Publicity is the engine of politics
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A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
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We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.
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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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It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems
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Some young men think they can learn how to be successful in politics from books, and they cram their heads with all sorts of college rot. They couldn’t make a bigger mistake.
