Politics Quotes
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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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They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.
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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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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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Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.
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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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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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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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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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He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed.
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Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.
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I actually don't want to be an actor for the rest of my life. I'd like to go on to be a lawyer or a doctor, and I definitely would like to get into politics.
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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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It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
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Good economics is good politics.
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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.
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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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I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.
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Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.
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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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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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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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I thought I was leaving elected office and politics in order to focus on schooling, but as you know, schooling turns out to be frankly even more political than politics.
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The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.
