Famous Quotes: Politics

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.
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It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
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I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.
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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
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It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.
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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.
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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.
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You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.
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In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
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