954 private quotes tagged politics

“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.” — Richard Armour

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“Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.” — Russell Baker

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“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.” — Charles de Gaulle

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“You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.” — Daniel Hannan

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“Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?” — Robert Orben

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“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.” — John Stuart Mill

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“The secret of getting things done is to act!” — Dante Alighieri

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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.” — Paul Wellstone

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“A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.” — Albert Pike

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“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.” — William E. Gladstone

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“Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.” — W.C. Fields

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“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.” — John Morley

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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.” — Ricardo Montalban

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“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.” — Mao Zedong

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“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.” — Mario Puzo

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“As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

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“The most important political office is that of the private citizen.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.” — A. N. Wilson

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“The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.” — Fidel Castro

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“I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.” — Kevin Costner

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“Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.” — Fritz Sauckel

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“The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.” — Fidel Castro

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“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.” — Leo Rosten

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“To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.” — Ai Weiwei

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