Famous Quotes: Politics

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
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I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
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Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.
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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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The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
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This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
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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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I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
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The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
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From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.
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Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
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A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
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In Pakistan politics is hereditary.
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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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