- 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 grew up in a progressive household with a family that believed in equality for all, and that leaves its mark on you. In the past, I planned to go into politics and never considered Wall Street as an option.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Americans, we have to be honest and ask ourselves a question: Do we really want to tone down politics? I always hear a resounding 'yes,' and I think most people mean that genuinely. But do our practices ever change?
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics - sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics. She's a nightmare. The Left's holding her up as the second coming of Hillary Clinton; Lord knows we don't need the first.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020