Politics Quotes
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Thomas Carlyle
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Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.
Shirley Chisholm
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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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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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I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.
Susan Straight
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All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.
Vladimir Lenin
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In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.
Sharad Pawar
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I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.
Norm MacDonald
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If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.
Brad Williams
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Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.
Thomas Sowell
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Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.
Sean O'Casey
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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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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.
Nicky Morgan
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I believe every Christian should be involved in politics.
Bill Bright
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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.
Bernard Crick
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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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Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.
Shirley Chisholm
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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.
Eva Moskowitz
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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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There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
Tony Abbott
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
William Howard Taft
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When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
Bill Clinton
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Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.
Enid Lyons
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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
Bernard Crick