- Democrats
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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
- Bush Administration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
- Preparation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not comfortable discussing politics publicly; I am very comfortable talking about my friendships with people who happen to be in politics.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I've always avoided politics because I didn't want to make commitments that would take me away from raising these children.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020