Famous Quotes: Politics

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 disgusts me.
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Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
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The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Politics is not really my thing.
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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
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Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.
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The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
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I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
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If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.
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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
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I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
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