954 private quotes tagged politics

“When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.” — William J. Clinton

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“I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.” — Calvin Klein

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“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.” — Charles Krauthammer

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“Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.” — Imelda Marcos

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“In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.” — T. D. Jakes

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“I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.” — Haruki Murakami

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“This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.” — Thomas Frank

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“I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.” — J. C. Watts

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“I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.” — Kid Rock

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“We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.” — Bob Ehrlich

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“My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.” — Arlen Specter

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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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“With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“Pennsylvania is a very tough state people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.” — Arlen Specter

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“Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'” — Prince

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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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“War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.” — Karl Von Clausewitz

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“Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.” — Johann Lamont

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“I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.” — Jerry Lewis

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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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“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.” — Henry Adams

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

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“When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.” — William Hague

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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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