954 private quotes tagged politics

“What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.” — Lindsey Graham

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“Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.” — Todd Gitlin

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“Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.” — Molly Ivins

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“I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.” — Todd Gitlin

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“I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.” — Mira Nair

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“The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.” — Lindsey Graham

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“I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.” — Simon Cowell

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“I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.” — James Carville

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“It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.” — Angela Davis

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“There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.” — Laura Ingraham

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“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.” — Wendell Phillips

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“Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.” — Francis Parker Yockey

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“I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.” — Charles Kennedy

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“I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.” — John Key

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“It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.” — Susan George

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“The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.” — Charles Kennedy

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“The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.” — Michael Pollan

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“Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.” — John B. S. Haldane

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“In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.” — Iain Banks

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“I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.” — Corazon Aquino

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“I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.” — Suzanne Farrell

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“When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.” — Roland Joffe

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“Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.” — James Hansen

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“There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.” — Susan George

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“I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.” — John Key

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