Politics Quotes
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You would be naive to suggest that politics isn't complicated or isn't a game, but you don't create change through cynicism.
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And then I felt sick for believing in spite of myself. You get invested in things—love affairs, politics, con games—and you tie yourself in knots trying to make reality match up to what would make you happiest. The mad part is, what would make you happiest is to get your cope on for what is, rather than what you would rather have happen.
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There's only one thing to do with politics, and that is to survive it.
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Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
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Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.
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Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.
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Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
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Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.
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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.
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I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.
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I'm not going to talk too much politics because I'm not smart enough to do that.
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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.
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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.
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A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
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It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy.
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It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.
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My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
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It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
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Politics is history in the making.
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All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.
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Two heavyset, rough-looking men were arguing about politics, and he was struck anew by a thought he used to have often when he lived here: there is no such thing as a French tough guy. A French tough guy, even if he’s tough as nails, speaks French, and therefore isn’t very tough at all. These men looked like boxers, but they were speaking a feminine language and sipping daintily from tiny espresso cups. Schiller, six-foot-something and wide, always felt terribly manly in France, the land of fragile men.
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When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.
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I've never been a politics guy in wrestling; I'm just someone who came out and worked.
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What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.
