Politics Quotes
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Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many
Gary Holder-Winfield
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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.
Hillary Clinton
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
William Jennings Bryan
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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
Jimmy Buffett
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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These were the Sophists, and their interest was in teaching the use of argumentative skills of the sort previous philosophers had exhibited, but as a means of attaining worldly success, for instance in politics. Unfortunately, they gained a reputation for being rather cynical and unscrupulous in their argumentative standards: any old argument would do as long as it persuaded one’s listener, even if it was totally fallacious; what mattered was winning the debate, not arriving at the truth, and the line between logic and rhetoric was thus blurred.
Edward Feser
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And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging man's natural free will, but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of these important rights, the preservation of these, inviolate, may justly be said to include the preservation of our civil immunities in their largest and most extensive sense.
William Blackstone
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Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
Moshe Sharett
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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
William Jennings Bryan
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At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.
Sean Parker
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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
Bernard Crick
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I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.
Bailey Whitfield Diffie
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Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
William Francis Buckley
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“Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.”
Alexis De Veaux
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I've come to realize that Barack Obama is the tattoo president. Like a big tattoo, it seemed cool when you were young. But later on, that decision doesn't look so good, and you wonder: what was I thinking? But the worst part is you're still going to have to explain it to your kids.
Tim Pawlenty
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I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.
Molly Ivins
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With prior Republican nominees for president, I disagreed with them on politics, policies, principles, but I never questioned their fitness to serve. Donald Trump is different.
Hillary Clinton
