Politics Quotes
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
Sir Isaac Brock KB
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
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If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
Brown Campbell
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People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
Ralph Norman
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
Ma Ying-jeou
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I concluded that first of all I had to understand better what I was. Investigate my nature as a woman. I had been excessive, I had striven to give myself male capacities. I thought I had to know everything, be concerned with everything. What did I care about politics, about struggles. I wanted to make a good impression on men, be at their level. At the level of what, of their reason, most unreasonable.
Elena Ferrante
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Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
Ben Nicholson
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
Natasha Richardson
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
Nandan Nilekani
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
Federica Mogherini
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Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
James A. Leach
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I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
Samantha Bee
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
Rachel Kushner
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Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.
Carles Puigdemont
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I don't weigh into politics.
Gary Bettman
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I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
Hanya Yanagihara