Politics Quotes
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Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.
Thomas Kuhn
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I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.
Rick Perry
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Politics has become very unpredictable, making things so very difficult for individuals and also for companies.
Nicholas Bloom
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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
Molly Ivins
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In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
Hannah Arendt
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You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.
Eugene Jarecki
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Politics is history in the making.
Adolf Hitler
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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
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Good economics is good politics.
Paul Keating
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My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.
Evan Bayh
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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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If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
Theresa May
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Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
Bernard Crick
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I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.
Steve Martin
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Thomas Sowell
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The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
Bernard Crick
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I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.
Theresa May
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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.
George W. Plunkitt
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Our goals are also the same, to have a just system of economics and politics, to let the people of the world share in growth, in peace, in personal freedom, and in the benefits to be derived from the proper utilization of natural resources. We believe in enhancing human rights. We believe that we should enhance, as independent nations, the freedom of our own people.
Jimmy Carter
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The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.
Thomas Sowell
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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
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Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.
Edwin Percy Whipple