954 private quotes tagged politics

“Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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“In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.” — Lucy Powell

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“Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.” — Lucy Powell

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“I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.” — Bjork

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“I am interested in politics.” — Dave Mustaine

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“I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.” — Karl Rove

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“You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.” — Nick Clegg

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“Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.” — Jesse Ventura

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“Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.” — Paul Wellstone

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“Politics is show business for ugly people.” — Paul Begala

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“One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.” — Frank Lautenberg

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“For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.” — Lucy Powell

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“I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.” — Kate Millett

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“Politics is a highly tribal business.” — Nick Clegg

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“We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.” — Lucy Powell

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“I don't get involved in record label politics.” — Leona Lewis

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“Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.” — David Miliband

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“To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.” — David Frum

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“Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.” — Eric Liu

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“Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.” — Helen Reddy

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“Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.” — Margaret Fuller

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“I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.” — Anna Chlumsky

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“I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.” — William Howard Taft

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“No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.” — Danica Patrick

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“No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.” — Thomas Friedman

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