Famous Quotes: Politics

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
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I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.
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Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.
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A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.
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Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
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This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
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I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.
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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
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