Famous Quotes: Politics

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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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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The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.
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You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.
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We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.
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Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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I don't compromise my principles for politics.
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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
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You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
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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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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
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Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
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American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
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