Famous Quotes: Politics

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.
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I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.
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It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.
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The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
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With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
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And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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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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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.
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Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
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Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.
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Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.
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When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.
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