Politics Quotes
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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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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.
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You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.
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The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion.
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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.
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To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.
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[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
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Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.
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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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I've never been a politics guy in wrestling; I'm just someone who came out and worked.
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There's a lot of division in politics, and that is why I am grateful to be a part of a show like 'Veep.' It makes light of the daunting aspects of the political world.
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Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves.
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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.
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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?.
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Politics has become very unpredictable, making things so very difficult for individuals and also for companies.
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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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I don't in any way underestimate the difficulties, because it's only gotten harder. But I do think you just have to go into politics with the attitude that you're going to speak clearly and authentically about what you see the country needs...and seek out whatever possible partners you can, even in the other party. I've looked at successful presidents going back. Some of our most successful governed through periods when their party was in charge, and when the other party was in charge. There's no magic formula.
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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."
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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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.
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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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The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.
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Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.
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It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the people we've grown to love or otherwise.
