- Building
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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone concerned with the broken politics in Washington needs to look no further than Mitch McConnell's cynical manipulation of the rules and obstruction of the NLRB.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learn about history and religion and politics. It keeps me tuned in. If I hear something on the news, I'm like, 'Oh my God, this is what somebody is talking about in the play that I'm about to do in two hours.' The act itself - of rehearsing, failing, and still persisting and trying to create - keeps me curious, keeps me searching.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is about the art of the possible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people are quite refreshed with politicians who aren't concerned with what Arctic Monkeys track they like, but with the day-to-day, dull business of politics.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it was dangerous to live here, or to go into politics.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get no pleasure from politics; it's not in my character.
- Ferocity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.
- Strength
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- Nov 07, 2020