- Love
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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
- Diffuse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think politics is a higher build in life. You know? If you diffuse under normal, common sense of a story, you make it political. If you choose a conventional way for a story, or refuse to use the conventional way, you make it political.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
- Both
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is so obvious that we are constantly monitored and manipulated both in advertising and in politics.
- Bankers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've delegated politics to bankers. The European Central Bank is inside Deutsche Bank, and Deutsche Bank is inside the Bundesbank.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of the compromise, which was the art of politics, is no longer valid. Compromise needs to be between citizens, not between Republicans and Democrats.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
- Arguably
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives complain that the Supreme Court is too liberal. Liberals complain that it's too conservative. Both charges are inaccurate: in reality the Court is a careful political actor that arguably represents the center of gravity of American politics better than most politicians do.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt - whether it's in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it. Journalism certainly is up there. Everything is susceptible to it.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.
- Capable
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no gambling like politics.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020