Famous Quotes: Politics

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Politics is activity in relation to power.
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And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
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Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.
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I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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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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Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
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Everything about my politics has been about the future.
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I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.
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Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
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I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.
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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
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