Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Ronald Reagan
BusinessPoliticsHellYouOpening
As our politics have become more polarized, the essential loyalties shift from ideas to parties to tribes to individuals. Nothing else ultimately matters.
Charlie Sykes
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In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
Catherine the Great
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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
Joseph Cannon
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That's the one thing I probably don't like about politics - the focus on the individual. To me, it's more important to get it done, whether I get the credit for it or not.
Grace Meng
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My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country.
Marc Benioff
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It is not right to play politics with education.
Rajinikanth
EducationPoliticsPlayRight
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin Coolidge
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So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.
Daniel Yergin
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My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
Jack Johnson
FriendPoliticsMeChickenNever
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.
Marco Rubio
PoliticsPeopleBetterAmericanHere
After Charlottesville, our politics have now borne witness to a U.S. president at times openly defending neo-Nazis and white supremacists before condemning them.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
Aaron Levie
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I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics.
Elaine Pagels
RelationshipPoliticsReligionBook
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
Jackie Kennedy
GoodPoliticsYouKnowRepublican
When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.
Lee H. Hamilton
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It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.
Ralph Hall
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
Daniel Barenboim
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That line, about half of somebody's supporters being deplorables, was maybe the worst line I've ever heard in politics. You never - even when you're running against a bunch of racists, you never take off against the voters. It was a politics 101 foible.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
J. B. Pritzker
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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Mao Zedong
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
Patrick Murphy
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
A. N. Wilson
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Active citizenship doesn't just mean running for office or going into politics; it means starting organisations that promote change or solve a problem, pursuing social good with economic success.
Ben Rhodes
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