- Know
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I ever remember my dad saying, 'Go away, this is an adult conversation.'
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons.
- Common Cause
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly, my advice is that communicating, lobbying, fundraising and engaging the public in policy and politics is far more exciting and inexpensive via the Internet. Old guard organizations like Common Cause had to evolve to embrace this new environment.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak out politically - to not be constrained by a non-partisan organization.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As our politics have become more polarized, the essential loyalties shift from ideas to parties to tribes to individuals. Nothing else ultimately matters.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paul Ryan hasn't lacked for a job since he left college as the golden child of Wisconsin Republican politics, riding his family connections into a job with then-Senator Bob Kasten.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics and public life are not for the faint of heart. It has been and always will be a noisy and cantankerous place.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Competition in politics is just as important as competition in everything else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020