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- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was not to learn about politics that I had gone to Cambridge. I was there as a mathematician, having won a major scholarship to Trinity College the previous year. Perhaps if there had not been quite so many things to distract me, I might have remained a mathematician.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020