Politics Quotes
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My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Marianne Williamson
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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.
Mike Cernovich
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Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.
Alexander Fraser Tytler
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I actually think it's very important that the Navy SEAL community stay out of politics.
Eric Greitens
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Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists, after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves.
Michel Foucault
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
Honore de Balzac
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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.
Thomas More
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Remember, it is the president's constitutional duty to provide a strong national defense. Don't insert politics into national security. Listen to your ground commanders. They know better than anyone what our military's needs are. Have somebody strong at home who can provide you with needed support 'off the battle field.'
Ryan Zinke
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Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.
Georgi Plekhanov
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Politics is social work with power.
Barbara Mikulski
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I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.
Arnaud Montebourg
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Politics is a contact sport.
Steve Chabot
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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.
George Will
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A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I've never been in politics before, but even in the brief time that I've been running for governor, I've been exposed to some of the worst people I've ever known. Liars, cowards, sociopaths.
Eric Greitens
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For conspiracy,
I know not how it tastes, though it be dished
For me to try how.
William Shakespeare
