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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

Future
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Nov 07, 2020

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

Quotes by Al Gore

Nov 07, 2020

I don't think we have the right haircut or tattoos for politics.

Quotes by Al Jourgensen

Friendship
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Nov 07, 2020

Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.

Quotes by Akshaye Khanna

God
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Nov 07, 2020

When I got the job with Fox, I said 'God, are you sure?' I know nothing about politics; I've been covering car accidents and street closures and the pothole patrol in my hometown.

Quotes by Ainsley Earhardt

Community
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Nov 07, 2020

I knew I would work in a community that I would like to live in, but I had no idea that I would ever go into politics, even though some of my classmates thought I would.

Quotes by Aja Brown

Over
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Nov 07, 2020

The days of pay-to-play politics is over.

Quotes by Aja Brown

Nov 07, 2020

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Quotes by Ai Weiwei

Nov 07, 2020

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

Nov 07, 2020

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

Nov 07, 2020

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

Nov 07, 2020

Music that speaks of politics is less listened to than the music of partying, but it's still there.

Nov 07, 2020

Good government is good politics.

Work
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Nov 07, 2020

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Nov 07, 2020

You have to decide to create the society you want to create, and that's done through politics.

Nov 07, 2020

I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.

Nov 07, 2020

We've made so much progress in the last 100 years, and I think it's easy for us to think that women in the workplace, women in politics, isn't that big of a deal. And when you step back and look at it from the scope of human history, from thousands and thousands of years - it's a radical idea for a woman to be in charge.

Nov 07, 2020

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Nov 07, 2020

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

Government
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Nov 07, 2020

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Respect
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Nov 07, 2020

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy - I didn't agree with a lot of his politics - but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn't trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn't quite respect us.

Other entries note how interest in current politics can coexist with fatigue toward it, and how disagreements over religion have historically caused deeper rifts than political ones. The range here shows politics as a subject people approach with as much ambivalence as passion.

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