- Power
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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.
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- Indifference
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no interest in owning a football club; I don't play golf; I don't like horseracing and I'd rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very apolitical. I mean, after having covered politicians so much all my life, I basically have no belief in politics. But it's more of an attitude and a discipline in the way you approach life, I think, than it is just what lever you pull in a voting booth.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there has been any progress in the Chinese society and politics over the last 20 years, it is all because the citizens have been pushing for change.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely think my ancestry has something to do with my politics. And I think being deeply suspicious of government and communists is implicit in a lot of first-generation immigrants, particularly from Eastern Europe. My mom came over from Romania when she was a kid and they fled the commies who took their family hemp farm.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no more divisive character in modern politics than Steve Bannon, as he symbolizes the devil incarnate for the heaving, emotional left.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tory supporters are not spontaneously ashamed; they have been made to feel ashamed. British leftists fiercely believe they are right - in the sense of correct but also in the sense of just. Conservatives likewise believe they are right-as-in-correct. Yet Tories are less confident about whether their politics are right-as-in-just.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020