954 private quotes tagged politics

“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.” — Billy Sunday

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“It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.” — Robert Byrd

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“Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.” — George McGovern

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“My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.” — Eliza Dushku

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“We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?” — Rahm Emanuel

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“Politics is just show business for ugly people.” — Jay Leno

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“It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.” — Robert Redford

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“We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.” — James McGreevey

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“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Politics is a blood sport.” — Aneurin Bevan

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“One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.” — Groucho Marx

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“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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.” — Robert Wyatt

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“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.” — Paul Valery

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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.” — Anthony de Mello

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“Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.” — Edward Kennedy

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“Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.” — James MacGregor Burns

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“I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.” — Harold MacMillan

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“I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.” — Gerhard Schroder

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“I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.” — William Gilbert

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