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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.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics changes lives. You would expect me, as a politician, to say that. But I don't say it as a politician: I say it as someone whose own life was changed.
- George W. Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.
- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is a blood sport.
- Morals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best policymakers know that in start-ups, as in politics, not everything works out exactly as planned.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.
- Explains
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always looked at the world through the prism of money to some degree. If you could follow the money, it explains a lot of things, in all sorts of aspects of the world. You can look at politics through the prism of money. You can look at art through the prism of money. You can look at sports through the prism of money.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
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- Nov 07, 2020