- Grinding
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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
- Rise
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It’s good to learn and be engaged and listen to people, see what’s going on. But that’s not the motivator: if I was a political person, I’d have gone into politics.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a wide range today of documentaries on politics. The central mass of it is made by networks, and nothing's changed.
- National
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- Nov 07, 2020
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I grew up in Vermont, there is no municipal garbage removal. You have to bring your trash to the dump every weekend. Something like three hours on Saturday morning, the entire town goes in. It is actually a very efficient place to do politics. I would go to the garbage dump, get petitions signed, give out literature, talk to voters.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I'm not affiliated with any campaign, nor do I generally find politics interesting enough to plan to be involved.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I'm just a politician's son, not a politician myself. Two politicians, that's my dad and elder brother, in the family are enough. I'm happy doing my own stuff in Bollywood.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020