Politics Quotes
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Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.
Dalai Lama
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The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.
George Will
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A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Bernard Crick
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We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball.
Barney Rosset
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It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.
Ali Larijani
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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.
Marianne Williamson
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If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.
William Francis Buckley
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Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.
Cecily McMillan
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Putin wants nothing less than to return Russia to the center of global politics by challenging the primacy that the United States has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.
Ivo Daalder
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The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.
Thomas Sowell
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Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.
Hannah Arendt
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So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
Marianne Williamson
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Having the democrats watch your money is like having Michael Vick watch your dog for the weekend
Tim Pawlenty
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Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it's emotional. It's not rocket science.
William M. Daley
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There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.
Eugene McCarthy
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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
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Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.
Sidney Hillman
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I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?.
Bill Clinton
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For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.
Mo Udall
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The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.
William Butler Yeats
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Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
Molly Ivins
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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.
Argus Hamilton
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Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?
Ellen Kushner