Politics Quotes
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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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.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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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.
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
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My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Without ideology, and with nothing but jobs for the boys at stake, party politics was losing its raison d’être, and trust in the old democratic order could no longer be taken for granted.
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I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
