- Nov 07, 2020
Politics Quotes
Voices on ideology, debate, and public life.
These politics quotes range from a personal statement linking radical belief to the character of one's work, to an observation that casual conversation about politics rarely gets taken too seriously. Together they capture politics as something people engage with unevenly, with real distance between everyday talk and lasting conviction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to spend some time with my family. My kids are really in the years where I'm starting to miss more stuff, and we're going to stay very involved in politics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the world, Boing Boing. Over the past decade the Canadian-born writer has published 16 books, mostly science fiction novels. He campaigns vigorously on the politics of the digital age.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were doing 'Sports Night' and 'West Wing' at the same time, I thought I was the luckiest guy in the world because my two interests were politics and sports.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is politics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
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- Nov 07, 2020