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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
- Nov 07, 2020
In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.
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- Nov 07, 2020