Famous Quotes: Politics

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
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Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.
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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
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Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
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Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.
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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
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Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.
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In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
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I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
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In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.
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Negative politics have always been around.
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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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What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
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I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
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