954 private quotes tagged politics

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

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“An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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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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“I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.” — Benjamin Carson

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

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“War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.” — Alfred Adler

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

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

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“Anything's possible in politics.” — Pat Robertson

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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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“You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.” — Michael Bloomberg

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

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“You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.” — Bono

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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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“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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“The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.” — Jonathan Sacks

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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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“Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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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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“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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