Politics Quotes
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Thomas Sowell -
I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.
Harry Triguboff
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When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.
James Cook -
In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
Hannah Arendt -
The optimistic side of me hopes that the majority of people look at what's going on in politics today and in the world, in general, and just say, "We've had enough."
Edwin Hodge -
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer -
In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to take their earnings from them and give it to others (who will vote for them in return) show compassion.
Thomas Sowell
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To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.
William Lewis Safir -
If the Federal Reserve pursues a policy which Congress or the President believes not to be in the public interest, there is nothing Congress can do to reverse the policy. Nor is there anything the people can do. Such bastions of unaccountable power are undemocratic. The Federal Reserve System must be reformed, so that it is answerable to the elected representatives of the people.
Wright Patman -
Politics is as much a regular business as the grocery or the dry-goods or the drug business. You've got to be trained up to it or you're sure to fail.
George W. Plunkitt -
Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.
Bob Marley -
In politics, there are no friends.
Marian Wright Edelman -
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
Bill Gates
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Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.
Dalai Lama -
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 -
We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.
Sandra Day O'Connor -
The sobering anwer is yes - the white community is so entitled because ... it is the advanced race ... it is more important ... to affirm and live by civilized standards ... than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.
William Francis Buckley -
A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.
Marianne Williamson -
You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.
Nicholas Lemann
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When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.
Steve Bartlett -
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
Molly Ivins -
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.
Eban Goodstein -
The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.
Wright Patman