954 private quotes tagged politics

“Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.” — David Attenborough

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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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“Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.” — Bob Barr

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“The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.” — Frances O'Grady

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“Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.” — Lindsey Graham

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“The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.” — Gloria Steinem

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“Everything about my politics has been about the future.” — David Miliband

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“It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.” — Jane Fonda

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“No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.” — Emma Goldman

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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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“The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.” — Michael Bloomberg

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“While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.” — Leonard Bernstein

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“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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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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“The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.” — Nick Clegg

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“Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.” — Doug Larson

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“Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.” — Richard Stallman

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“Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.” — Jesse Jackson

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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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“There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.” — Thomas Frank

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“I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.” — Zell Miller

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

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“No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.” — Hannah Arendt

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