Politics Quotes
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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.
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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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Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.
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In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.
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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.
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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.
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Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.
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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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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
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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.
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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 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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How does the richest country in the history of the world fail to pay its bills?
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You have to look beyond your known limited experience. Politics should be based on compassion.
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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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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.
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So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.
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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.'
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The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.
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If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.
