954 private quotes tagged politics

“Does politics have to be injected into everything?” — Sargent Shriver

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“I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.” — Kathie Lee Gifford

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“I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.” — Ann Richards

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“There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.” — Ed Koch

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“Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.” — Peggy Noonan

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“American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.” — Bob Schieffer

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“People feel politics isn't about their lives.” — David Miliband

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“My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.” — Todd Gitlin

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“Politics is the science of urgencies.” — Theodore Parker

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“My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.” — Liev Schreiber

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“Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.” — Ridley Scott

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“I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.” — Kathleen Turner

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“I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.” — Molly Ivins

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“Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.” — Robert Teeter

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“I don't want to force my politics on my readers.” — John Grisham

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“I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.” — Todd Gitlin

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“You should never ask actors about politics.” — Liev Schreiber

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“I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.” — Pervez Musharraf

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“There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.” — Robert Griffin III

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“I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.” — Marat Safin

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“Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics.” — Kevin Rudd

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“Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.” — Gary Bauer

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“Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich.” — Gary Bauer

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“All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.” — Godfrey Reggio

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“When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.” — Bill Frist

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