Politics Quotes
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Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'
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If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
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I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.
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You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.
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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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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.
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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.
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Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
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Good economics is good politics.
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I think this is what we must not lose sight of, present a confident, positive and optimistic platform for our country's future in which this Party appeals to the centre ground of British politics.
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I'm not after anything, I don't want to be part of politics, I don't want to be a part of anything.
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Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.
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The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.
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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.
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People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical needs of human beings, maybe. They are providing food. But not good and healthy food.
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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
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The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.
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What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
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Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.
