954 private quotes tagged politics

“The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.” — John Jay Chapman

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“In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.” — Tony Blair

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“I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.” — Jane Seymour

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“It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.” — Paul Wellstone

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“It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'” — Rutherford B. Hayes

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“American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.” — Michael Mandelbaum

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“Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.” — Christopher Lasch

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“Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.” — Harry Shearer

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“When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.” — Kid Rock

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“If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.” — John le Carre

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“When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.” — Johnny Rotton

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“The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.” — Big Boi

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“This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.” — Richard Powers

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“If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.” — Meg Greenfield

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“Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.” — George Saunders

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“Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.” — Kristin Chenoweth

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“The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.” — Marilyn Manson

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“One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.” — Nick Clegg

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“Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.” — Jeff Goodell

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“The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.” — Malcolm Turnbull

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“Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.” — Charles Kennedy

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“I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach.” — James McGreevey

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“I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.” — Eric Holder

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“I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.” — John Avlon

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