- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political Quotes
Political life, criticized and examined from several sides.
This set includes one quote critical of a named judge's judicial philosophy, alongside more general observations about school boards serving as a training ground for political leadership. For satirical takes on politics, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
- Nov 07, 2020
I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.
- Stay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recognize I have faults. I'm accountable for them, and I try to do what I can to correct them. I will say that it's unfortunate that everything I do is scrutinized to the point that it is. Frankly, I don't watch the news, I stay away from political conversations.
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.
- Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
- Speech
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020