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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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- Nov 07, 2020
In golf, a wedge issue means just that: You can't hit your sand wedge, or your lob wedge needs to be regrooved. In politics, a wedge issue is more serious still: It's one that splits the electorate, dividing voters along ideological fault lines.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought of myself is a private-sector person. I was a reluctant candidate. I put in my time. Now it's somebody else's turn to take charge. But I am still very interested in politics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buying low and selling high, they tend to generate losses.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that Donald Trump committed an abuse of power by bringing politics into a foreign relationship is a joke. They all do it. Trump is just more open about it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
- Exploits
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- Nov 07, 2020
Created by writer Beau Willimon, who's worked on several political campaigns, 'House of Cards' cannily exploits the current widespread cynicism for our politics, catering to a public scorn that's warranted and also glib in the sort of cheap pox-on-both-houses way that means not having to pay attention.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.
- Nov 07, 2020
So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is a contact sport.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could not think higher of Governor Palin. She is a force of nature and has inspired a generation of women to really get actively involved in politics and, more importantly, take their culture back and take their country back.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
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- Nov 07, 2020