Famous Quotes: Politics

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
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There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.
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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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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
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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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The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.
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I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.
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In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
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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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I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
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You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
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