Politics Quotes
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If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth. The conditions under which we exist today in the field of politics are indeed threatened by these devastating sand storms.
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There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
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I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
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I'm not into politics. I'm into survival.
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I remember my dad supporting everyone on the local and national level. I was pretty much born into it. I saw the importance of politics firsthand. It gave you a chance to be at the table.
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Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
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Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.
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There's very little reason in politics these days.
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Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics.
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I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.
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Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale.
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In politics there are no principles, just opportunities.
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I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.
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There's a lot of division in politics, and that is why I am grateful to be a part of a show like 'Veep.' It makes light of the daunting aspects of the political world.
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I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
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In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse.
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A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.
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What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?
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Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.
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The job of an artist is to entertain and not get involved with politics. We give the people in the countries we are visiting a good show - that's the purpose of an entertainer.
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That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
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When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.
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Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so.
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When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
