Politics Quotes
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If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role, but I do think that there has to be an understanding of how what happens here on Wall Street has such broad consequences not just for the domestic but the global economy, so more thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we don't kill or maim what works, but we concentrate on the most effective way of moving forward with the brainpower and the financial power that exists here.
Hillary Clinton -
I'm not going to talk too much politics because I'm not smart enough to do that.
Brad Williams
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No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.
Thomas Sowell -
In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
Sean Hannity -
I actually think it's very important that the Navy SEAL community stay out of politics.
Eric Greitens -
I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly "illisible". To take the risk of suggesting that the human form might take another form.
Judith Butler -
I believe every Christian should be involved in politics.
Bill Bright
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[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
George Will -
In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.
Cecily McMillan -
The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.
Harry S Truman -
Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.
Ben Lerner -
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Sydney Pollack
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President Obama, right after the Gabby Gifford shooting said we need to usher in a new era of civil discourse in politics. But not heeding his own advice.
Eric Bolling -
Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'
William Lewis Safir -
You would be naive to suggest that politics isn't complicated or isn't a game, but you don't create change through cynicism.
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau -
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.
Scott Adams -
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
Ezra Pound -
Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.
Eugene Hutz
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Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.
Tony Blair -
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Cato the Elder -
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.
Thomas Sowell -
Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.
Merle Haggard