Politics Quotes
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[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
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I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.
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Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.
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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
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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.
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Politics is history in the making.
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Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.
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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.
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The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups in the inner wheels of our industrial organization. It must come from inner compulsions and desires.
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We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office.
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I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.
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Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.
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I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.
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In politics, there are no friends.
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.
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[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.
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The best politics is no politics.
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If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.
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Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
