954 private quotes tagged politics

“The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.” — John Hughes

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“I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.” — Michelle Obama

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“First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.” — Donald Rumsfeld

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“In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.” — Donald Rumsfeld

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“What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.” — Nick Clegg

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“There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.” — Alan Clark

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“One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.” — Sarah Jessica Parker

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“It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.” — Bob Geldof

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“What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.” — Christopher Lasch

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“I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.” — Mark Cuban

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“I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.” — Samuel L. Jackson

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“In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

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“At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.” — Shirley Chisholm

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“I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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“A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.” — Robert Byrne

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“There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.” — Imran Khan

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“A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?” — Jon Meacham

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“Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.” — Ralph Nader

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“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.” — Alveda King

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“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” — John Quincy Adams

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“I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.” — Jeane Kirkpatrick

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