- Equality
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brexit and Trump had upended the fundamental establishment viewpoint that politics was aspirational, that good politics promised progress, generational betterment and ever-expanding world reach.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important virtue in politics was once thought to be likeability. But in Corbyn, dislikeable was king. Actually, dislikeability reached its apotheosis in Donald Trump, who exhibited sourness, truculence and negativity in every step and tweet.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.
- Believing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
- Playground
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really wanted to be - either a senator, or a Supreme Court Justice, and I always wanted to be a lawyer.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am better at politics than I am at anything else.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaving politics was a good thing. I was spared a miserable Tory government where I might have ended up as leader.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama decided to prematurely withdraw from Iraq for no other reason than politics. The artificial deadline for withdrawal was not determined for strategic goals but rather for a political one - his reelection timetable.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics remained archaically unchanged in 1999. America was economically strong but morally complacent. It was a year of evil in many ways - another great year for cartooning.
- Black Hole
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- Nov 07, 2020