954 private quotes tagged politics

“People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.” — Whitfield Diffie

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“I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.” — Emma Bonino

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“Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.” — Judd Gregg

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“First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot.” — George Crook

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“On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.” — Mark Udall

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“The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.” — H. Rap Brown

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“There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.” — George Papandreou

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“I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.” — Sonny Perdue

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“The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.” — Eric Sevareid

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“Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.” — Malcolm Forbes

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“After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.” — will.i.am

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“I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.” — Alastair Campbell

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“The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.” — Christian Siriano

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“Politics makes me sick.” — William Howard Taft

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“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.” — Lord Acton

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“Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.” — Anna Deavere Smith

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“Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.” — Bill Maher

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“Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.” — Paul Wellstone

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“I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.” — Robert Carlyle

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“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.” — Grover Cleveland

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“The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.” — Lucy Powell

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“Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.” — Mike Huckabee

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“Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.” — Conor Cruise O'Brien

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