Famous Quotes: Politics

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
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The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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People like passion in politics.
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I can't say I follow politics extremely closely, but I'm definitely aware of what's going on in the world.
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I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.
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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
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You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.
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Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
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I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
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The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
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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 don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
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