Politics Quotes
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
A. S. Byatt
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And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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Politics is not an exact science.
Otto von Bismarck
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
Tatyana Tolstaya
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
Ted Shackelford
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
Bassem Youssef
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
Barbara Bush
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
Zaha Hadid
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
Mahesh Babu
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
Tabitha Soren
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
Nandan Nilekani
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
P. T. Barnum
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
E. Franklin Frazier
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I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.
Dana Perino
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
Jackie Kennedy
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
Zell Miller
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
Beau Willimon
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
Vince Cable
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In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.
Simon Armitage
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
Carly Fiorina
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
Jack Germond
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
Ta-Nehisi Coates