954 private quotes tagged politics

“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.” — Otto von Bismarck

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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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“I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.” — Carly Fiorina

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“In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.” — Jean Rostand

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“When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.” — Nick Clegg

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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 organized hatred, that is unity.” — John Jay Chapman

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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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“I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.” — Rick Warren

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“These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.” — Van Morrison

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“I never have been involved in politics.” — Rick Warren

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“Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.” — Tony Campolo

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“Politics is not really my thing.” — John Malkovich

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“I think politics come out of psychology.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.” — C. Northcote Parkinson

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“I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.” — Fred Frith

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“It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.” — Jacob Bronowski

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“And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“I don't follow politics much.” — Vivienne Westwood

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“Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible.” — Ben Okri

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“Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.” — Joseph Sobran

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“You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.” — Tony Blair

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“There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.” — Vladimir Lenin

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