Famous Quotes: Politics

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.
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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
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What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.
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That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
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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.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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Life in abundance comes only through great love.
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We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.
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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.
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So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.
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Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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