Politics Quotes

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

J. C. Watts

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Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.

Jake Tapper

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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

Damian Lewis

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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Probably being in politics is the worst place for me to be.

Jacinda Ardern

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Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.

James Carville

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I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

Rachel Weisz

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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

Edmund Morgan

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The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Benjamin Disraeli

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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

Jack Germond

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As Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. The one thing we know about American presidential politics is you're going to get hit in the mouth.

James Carville

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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

Patricia Hewitt

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People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.

Eddie Vedder

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I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

Bernadine Dohrn

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The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

Karl Rove

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I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.

Jacqueline Bisset

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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Paddy Ashdown

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We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say.

Eazy-E

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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

Ben Carson

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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Kate Millett

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I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.

P. J. O'Rourke

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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Ed Koch

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