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In the quiet exchange amidst fading winds, we find the anticipatory brutal power of courage brewing unseen; action whispered does not blare but dam paints paved recordings provoking reflection.
Author:
Clara Eovingson
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In a world cradled by steal sharp conversations, the gentleness of implied connections becomes both throne and helm, steering progress towards tranquil revolutions.
Author:
Mira Elford
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Infinity bows to the single stone continually nudging theDefine edge of the pond; so too, does change gallopforward in the arena of relentless encouragement.
Author:
Jenna Elson
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In the symphony of conversation, the spaces between our thoughts weave a language all their own--there is power in the unspoken.
Author:
Marie Seager
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In the unvoiced spaces between conversations lies the true art of diplomacy, where silence becomes a canvas upon which understanding is painted.
Author:
Maisha Alaric
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True integrity begins when we realize that behind every encrypted code is a silent agreement between developers and harmony is shaken when policies blur deafening boundaries.
Author:
qaba Almaria
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In times of moral turmoil, being neutral requires us not merely to straddle the line but to listen deeply to all echoes and amplify the emerging truths lies beyond.
Author:
Stella Rivers
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Intergalactic diplomacy weaves through darkness and stars, revealing relationships forged not through dominance but language; where silence echoes firm resolutions guided by connection.
Author:
Autumn Rivera
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Shaping memory as you please inevitably shifts reality; nothing so fundamental should remain within our clumsy hands.
Author:
Rowan Fitz
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Success is not just about dreaming - it's about waking up, grinding it out, and shining bright.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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Success is not about winning every battle, but the lessons learned in every defeat.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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A true leader is measured by the compassion they show.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
Author:
Edmund Burke
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Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not.
Author:
Robert Kennedy
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Power is not given, it is always taken.
Author:
Maya Johnson
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Change begins with the courage to challenge the status quo.
Author:
Maya Smith
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It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
Author:
Khaleda Zia
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Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.
Author:
Jiang Zemin
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Author:
Mao Zedong
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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Author:
Mao Zedong
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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Author:
Frank Zappa
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Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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Politics is activity in relation to power.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
Author:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.
Author:
Link Wray
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Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.
Author:
Judy Woodruff
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'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
Author:
Naomi Wolf
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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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A week is a long time in politics.
Author:
Harold Wilson
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In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.
Author:
Anthony Williams
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
Author:
George Will
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That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
Author:
John Wilkes
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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.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
Author:
Theodore White
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I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Author:
Theodore White
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With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Author:
Theodore White
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The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Author:
Theodore White
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Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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Politics is not about money.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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Politics is not about power.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
Author:
H. Wells
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Author:
Orson Welles
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I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.
Author:
Paul Weller
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I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.
Author:
Paul Weller
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I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
Author:
William Weld
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I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
Author:
Rachel Weisz
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
Author:
Max Weber
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Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
Author:
J. Watts
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Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.
Author:
Diane Watson
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Author:
Booker Washington
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Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.
Author:
Mark Warner
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Author:
Charles Warner
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The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.
Author:
Rob Walton
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I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.
Author:
Paul Virilio
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Author:
Paul Valery
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On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.
Author:
Mark Udall
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I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Author:
Mao Tung
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One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Author:
Donald Trump
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The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
Author:
Pierre Trudeau
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Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
Author:
David Trimble
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
Author:
G. Trevelyan
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Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.
Author:
Rip Torn
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Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.
Author:
Marisa Tomei
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.
Author:
Hunter Thompson
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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Author:
Hunter Thompson
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
Author:
Cal Thomas
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In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.
Author:
Louis Thiers
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There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
Author:
Robert Teeter
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Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
Author:
Robert Teeter
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Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.
Author:
Tom Tancredo
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A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.
Author:
Amber Tamblyn
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I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.
Author:
David Talbot
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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
Author:
William Taft
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Politics makes me sick.
Author:
William Taft
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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
Author:
William Taft
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.
Author:
Lynn Swann
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After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Author:
Larry Summers
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My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
Author:
Andrew Sullivan
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We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.
Author:
Alfredo Stroessner
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
Author:
Bruce Sterling
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
Author:
Stendhal
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I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.
Author:
Peter Steele
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Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
Author:
Ronald Steel
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Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
Author:
Richard Stallman
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To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.
Author:
Jerry Springer
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It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
Author:
Eliot Spitzer
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Author:
Thomas Sowell
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
Author:
Tabitha Soren
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If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.
Author:
Tabitha Soren
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Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Author:
Philippe Sollers
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Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
Author:
Joseph Sobran
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Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
Author:
Olympia Snowe
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Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
Author:
Tony Snow
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With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
Author:
Iain Smith
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.
Author:
Christian Siriano
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I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.
Author:
Hugh Sidey
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Does politics have to be injected into everything?
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Author:
Richard Sheridan
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Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.
Author:
Harry Shearer
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
Author:
George Shaw
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Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
Author:
Moshe Sharett
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Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
Author:
Jeanne Shaheen
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
Author:
Ted Shackelford
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The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
Author:
Eric Sevareid
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Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
Author:
Ridley Scott
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We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.
Author:
Bobby Scott
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I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.
Author:
Bill Scott
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You should never ask actors about politics.
Author:
Liev Schreiber
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My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.
Author:
Liev Schreiber
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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
Author:
Wally Schirra
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American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
Author:
Bob Schieffer
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And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.
Author:
Robert Scheer
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I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.
Author:
Joe Scarborough
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There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'
Author:
John Sayles
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But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?
Author:
Terry Savage
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.
Author:
Mark Sanford
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Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.
Author:
Lord Salisbury
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I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.
Author:
Muqtada Sadr
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We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
Author:
Paul Ryan
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In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
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Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
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As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.
Author:
Ibrahim Rugova
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The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
Author:
Arundhati Roy
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You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
Author:
Arundhati Roy
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
Author:
Karl Rove
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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
Author:
Karl Rove
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
Author:
Harold Rosenberg
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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Author:
Will Rogers
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Politics is applesauce.
Author:
Will Rogers
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The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Author:
Will Rogers
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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Author:
Will Rogers
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If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
Author:
Will Rogers
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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
Author:
Anita Roddick
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My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.
Author:
Kid Rock
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Author:
Jackie Robinson
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Author:
Pat Robertson
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
Author:
Pat Roberts
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For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.
Author:
Bob Riley
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
Author:
Natasha Richardson
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The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.
Author:
Elliot Richardson
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Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
Author:
Ann Richards
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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Author:
Ann Richards
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When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.
Author:
Frank Rich
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For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.
Author:
Edward Rendell
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
Author:
Ed Rendell
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I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.
Author:
Robert Reich
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All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.
Author:
Godfrey Reggio
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I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.
Author:
Donald Regan
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A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
Author:
Richard Reeves
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It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Author:
Robert Redford
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Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.
Author:
Helen Reddy
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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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The movies were custard compared to politics.
Author:
Nancy Reagan
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I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
Author:
Stephen Rea
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Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
Author:
Henri Queuille
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
Author:
Dan Quayle
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
Author:
Mario Puzo
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Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.
Author:
Mark Pryor
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Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.
Author:
Romano Prodi
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I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.
Author:
Romano Prodi
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Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
Author:
Colin Powell
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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
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Colin Powell
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So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
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Mark Poster
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Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
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Pete Pont
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The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
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Michael Pollan
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By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.
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Sydney Pollack
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I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
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Sydney Pollack
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There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.
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John Podesta
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Plato
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Wendell Phillips
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War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
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Ross Perot
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
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Pericles
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I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.
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Sonny Perdue
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Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
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Nancy Pelosi
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In politics, you must let the other person have your way.
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Claiborne Pell
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There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
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Robert Peel
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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Lester Pearson
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
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Pope Paul II
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I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.
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Chris Patten
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Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
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Chris Patten
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I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.
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Chris Patten
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I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.
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Chris Patten
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So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
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Chris Patten
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We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.
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Deval Patrick
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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C. Parkinson
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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C. Parkinson
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Politics is the science of urgencies.
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Theodore Parker
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The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
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Sarah Palin
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The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
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Sarah Palin
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In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.
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Sarah Palin
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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Ian Paisley
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
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George Orwell
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
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George Orwell
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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P. O'Rourke
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Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.
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Jerry Only
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All politics is local.
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Thomas O'Neill
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Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
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Carl Olson
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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Pat Oliphant
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Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
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Ben Okri
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The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.
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William Odom
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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
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Conor O'Brien
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Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
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Barack Obama
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Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared.
Author:
Barack Obama
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In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
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Barack Obama
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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Barack Obama
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I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.
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Paul Nurse
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Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?
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Robert Novak
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Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.
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Grover Norquist
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The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.
Author:
Peggy Noonan
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Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
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Peggy Noonan
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Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
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Peggy Noonan
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Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.
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Lyn Nofziger
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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
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Richard Nixon
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
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Richard Nixon
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Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
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Richard Nixon
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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Richard Nixon
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
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John Nicolay
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Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.
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John Nicolay
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Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.
Author:
John Nicolay
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Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
Author:
Ben Nicholson
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Crime does not pay as well as politics.
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Alfred Newman
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Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
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George Nathan
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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Ralph Nader
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I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
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Pervez Musharraf
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Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.
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Joe Murray
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I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.
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Dick Murphy
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In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
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Brian Mulroney
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The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
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Daniel Moynihan
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Author:
Bill Moyers
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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Van Morrison
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Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
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Dick Morris
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'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
Author:
Dick Morris
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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
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John Morley
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Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
Author:
John Morley
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
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Maria Montessori
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Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
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Ricardo Montalban
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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Walter Mondale
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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
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George Mitchell
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All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.
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Andrea Mitchell
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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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Kate Millett
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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
Author:
Kate Millett
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
Author:
Kate Millett
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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.
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Zell Miller
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Author:
Arthur Miller
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I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.
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Ann Miller
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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Ed Miliband
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The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.
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Ed Miliband
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Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.
Author:
Ed Miliband
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Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
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Barbara Mikulski
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If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics.
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Charles Merrill
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If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.
Author:
Charles Merrill
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I have no political aspirations, although a lot of people believe that politics and acting go hand in hand.
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Rita Mero
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Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.
Author:
Angela Merkel
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That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
Author:
Angela Merkel
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On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.
Author:
Angela Merkel
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History is more interesting than politics.
Author:
Lennart Meri
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Author:
H. Mencken
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Author:
Anthony Mello
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I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
Author:
John Mellencamp
