954 private quotes tagged politics

“It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.” — Abba Eban

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“I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.” — Aneurin Bevan

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“Mixing humor and politics is something that works.” — Bryan Cranston

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“I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.” — Oliver Stone

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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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“Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.” — Saul Alinsky

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“War is the continuation of politics by other means.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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“I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'” — David Byrne

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

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“It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.” — Shirley MacLaine

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

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

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“This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.” — John Podhoretz

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“You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.” — Molly Ivins

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“Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.” — John Podhoretz

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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.” — Mao Zedong

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“One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.” — Mike Huckabee

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“I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.” — Herman Cain

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“Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.” — John Jay Chapman

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“In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.” — Clare Boothe Luce

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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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