Politics Quotes
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The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.
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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
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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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Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.
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Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.
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Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.
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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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There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
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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.
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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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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
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In politics, name recognition matters a lot.
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Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.
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When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good. But what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Moses led his people through the wilderness and he wasn't permitted to enter the Promised Land. Jesus was crucified. Mohammad founded a state which soon became an empire, so that Islam from the very beginning is involved with government, with politics. And therefore there is a very clear strong political tradition in Islam.
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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.
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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 don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.
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I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.
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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 never have been involved in politics.
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The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
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Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.
