Politics Quotes
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
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I can give the loser leave to chide.
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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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.
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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
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The alt-right has become about white identity politics. Obviously I'm not a white-identitarian, so the alt-right can do their thing.
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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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Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.
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In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.
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Politics is social work with power.
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Boris Nemtsov, left his mark on the history of Russia, in politics and public life. He worked on important positions in the difficult transition period for our country. He always openly and honestly stated his position, defended his point of view.
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Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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Politics is a contact sport.
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There are many reasons why the general public doesn't really understand our monetary system. In the first place, money is something that people tend to get emotional about. After all, money involves, and always has involved, something closely akin to faith-which probably explains why in many past societies the money system has been in the hands of a priesthood, the subject of magical rites, and the ceremonial services of the tribe's medicine man.
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In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
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Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.
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I think life is politics anyway. You can't ignore it, but you can go very wrong in politics. You can say what you thought 50 years ago, but maybe you're wrong today. It's something very special, politics. I think you'd better be a good person in life every day - it's much more important.
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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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POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.
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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
