Politics Quotes
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The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Thomas Sowell -
Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.
Harry S Truman
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell -
I'm very struck by what you can do in a classroom. I've got 200 students. You don't do partisan politics in a classroom, that's not appropriate. But you want to give them a strong sense that these are the issues that matter.
Michael Ignatieff -
It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.
Ali Larijani -
There's very little reason in politics these days.
Cate Blanchett -
I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.
Phil Crane -
The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.
Norman Finkelstein
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If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that's what they're supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that's commensurate with that.
Stephen J. Dubner -
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.
Steve Martin -
It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
Nigel Rees -
I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.
Silvio Berlusconi -
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Edouard Herriot
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The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on. But we know what's really involved, dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that.
Tom Lehrer -
If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.
Evan Bayh -
I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.
John Hewson -
When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.
Thomas Sowell -
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
George Will -
Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some... The truth of Christ's death, resurrection and power over sin is absolute.
Rick Perry
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Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?
Carter Glass -
They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.
Steve Largent -
I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
Tony Abbott -
There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
Tony Abbott