Politics Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.
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In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.
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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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How does the richest country in the history of the world fail to pay its bills?
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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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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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You have to look beyond your known limited experience. Politics should be based on compassion.
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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 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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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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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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If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.
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The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.
