Politics Quotes

There's one thing my dad taught me: don't talk about politics, because you'll never make anyone happy. Don't even go for it.

Noah Cyrus

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Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.

John Boyle O'Reilly

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Henry Adams

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'Stay with Me' started out being very political, largely because I'm a little obsessed with politics.

Ayobami Adebayo

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My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test.

Steven Pinker

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Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

Jonah Goldberg

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There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

Susan George

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I don't see myself in politics at 51. I definitely want to do something else.

Leo Varadkar

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I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

Eliot Spitzer

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In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.

Matt Taibbi

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Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money.

Martin O'Malley

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The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.

Chuck Todd

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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

Noam Chomsky

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I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.

Jerry Falwell

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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Henry Kissinger

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The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Sometimes, I read that I'm this leftwing comic who just goes on about politics the whole time. Other times, I read that it's just surreal nonsense about crisps. It's both of those.

Stewart Lee

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Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

Don Rickles

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The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

Peter Singer

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I don't get involved in record label politics.

Leona Lewis

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You are who you are, and in politics, if you stay who you are, you do better.

Elizabeth Esty

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I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Anna Chlumsky

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The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.

Miguel Syjuco

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You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Bono

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