Politics Quotes
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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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Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.
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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.
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How does the richest country in the history of the world fail to pay its bills?
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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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I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly "illisible". To take the risk of suggesting that the human form might take another form.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.
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I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
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You know what? I think the American people are a little pissed, and I think they're pissed at both parties - I think they're really pissed at both parties - and it will be reflected during election time.
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The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.
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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.
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The lyrics stand today 1980. They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.
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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.
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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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If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'
