Politics Quotes
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The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.
Bill Clinton
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It's one thing to have a president with whose politics you disagree; it's another to have a president who doesn't even seem to care about your welfare.
Eva Moskowitz
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Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.
Steve Earle
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I believe every Christian should be involved in politics.
Bill Bright
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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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Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
Albert Camus
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
Will Durant
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In terms of what I wanted to do before I got into politics, I was a businessman. I ran a company that makes and sells infrared night vision military technology and solar technology, so I wanted to grow that company and pursue groundbreaking technology in each of those areas.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?
Ellen Kushner
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Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.
William Francis Buckley
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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
Saul Bellow
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Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
Bernard Crick
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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.
Elena Ferrante
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I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.
Andrew Dice Clay
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The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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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
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The classic rules of American politics are dying, if not dead, if you look at the last two presidential elections. An African-American could never be president until one was; a TV reality star couldn't become president until one was.
Eric Garcetti
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Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.
Keith Best
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The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.
Herbert Spencer
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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.
Harry S Truman
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The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on. But we know what's really involved, dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that.
Tom Lehrer
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The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.
Terence McKenna
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Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
Paul Lynde
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
William Howard Taft