Politics Quotes
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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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Politics is social work with power.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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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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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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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
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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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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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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
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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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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
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My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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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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The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.
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The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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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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There aren't many idealists in politics.
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Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.
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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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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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In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
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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.
