954 private quotes tagged politics

“I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.” — Moira Kelly

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“I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.” — Kevin J. Anderson

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“In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.” — Youssou N'Dour

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“Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.” — Shailene Woodley

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“I never let my politics supersede my manners.” — Darren Criss

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“I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.” — Evan Bayh

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“The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.” — Hugh Sidey

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“Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.” — Al Franken

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“The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.” — Al Franken

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“Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.” — Rip Torn

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“Politics is politics art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.” — Youssou N'Dour

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“I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.” — Denise Mina

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“We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.” — Bobby Scott

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“Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.” — Nicholas D. Kristof

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“Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.” — Richard Lamm

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“Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.” — Warren Beatty

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“Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.” — Paul Davies

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“My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.” — Evan Bayh

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“I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.” — Ann Richards

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“As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.” — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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“It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.” — James Bovard

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“I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.” — David Guterson

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“But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.” — Fred F. Fielding

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“I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.” — Laura Bush

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“In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.” — Luke Ford

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