Politics Quotes
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I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.
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Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The DEMOCRATIC idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them
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Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
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Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
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Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
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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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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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Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
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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.
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A new politics can spark the clean-energy revolution that will serve as a foundation for a new era of human prosperity, protect the world's forests, stabilize the climate, and preserve the diversity of life on the planet.
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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.
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It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it
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The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
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If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with 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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The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.
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I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.
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A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
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I can give the loser leave to chide.
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There are important differences that mean we appreciate each other, not tolerate each other. Race creates this idea that there's this massive difference. So when you use race as a means to explore politics, it's a very interesting way of looking at difference, yet similarities.
