954 private quotes tagged politics

“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.” — Paul Valery

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“It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.” — Robert Redford

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“I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.” — Henry Adams

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“Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.” — Fritz Sauckel

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“Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.” — Leon Panetta

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“We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.” — Kin Hubbard

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“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.” — George MacDonald

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“A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.” — Ani DiFranco

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“I'm not in politics.” — David Attenborough

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“Everything is politics.” — Thomas Mann

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“Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the g-------d people.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.” — Sydney Pollack

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“It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.” — Hedy Lamarr

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“We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“Politics is just show business for ugly people.” — Jay Leno

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“After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.” — Billy Sunday

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“I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.” — J. C. Watts

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“And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.” — Tom Hanks

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“I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.” — Kevin Costner

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“Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.” — Russell Baker

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“Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.” — will.i.am

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“Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.” — Emma Goldman

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“Television is democracy at its ugliest.” — Paddy Chayefsky

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“Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.” — Caroline Kennedy

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