Famous Quotes: Politics

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.
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There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.
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I don't miss politics.
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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
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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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What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.
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If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.
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So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
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Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.
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