Famous Quotes: Politics

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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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.
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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
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When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
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The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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You should never ask actors about politics.
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Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.
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In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
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Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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