954 private quotes tagged politics

“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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“And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.” — Christy Romano

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“I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.” — Christopher Hitchens

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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 lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.” — Lindsey Graham

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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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“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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“A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.” — Peter Jennings

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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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“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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“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.” — Henry 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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