Politics Quotes
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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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Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.
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Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.
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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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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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Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.
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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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You have to look beyond your known limited experience. Politics should be based on compassion.
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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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Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
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If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.
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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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I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.
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The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.
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Good economics is good politics.
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I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
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I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.
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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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The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.
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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.
