954 private quotes tagged politics

“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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“Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.” — Lady Bird Johnson

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“War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.” — Ross Perot

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“Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.” — Milton Friedman

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“There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.” — Gail Simmons

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“I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.” — John Adams

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“It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.” — Sandra Day O'Connor

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

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“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.” — Cal Thomas

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“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.” — John W. Gardner

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“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.” — Clarence Darrow

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“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.” — John Stuart Mill

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“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” — Barry Goldwater

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“Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.” — Paul Wellstone

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“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.” — William E. Gladstone

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“I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.” — Edward Koch

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“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.” — Warren G. Harding

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“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.” — Ross Perot

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“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.” — Gertrude Stein

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“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.” — Lewis Black

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“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.” — W.C. Fields

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