- People
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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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- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am undoubtedly one of the more, if not the most, privileged undocumented immigrants in America. And for us at Define American, which is this culture campaign group that I founded with some friends, culture trumps politics.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a newcomer to America who learned to 'speak American' by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture - the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am firmly of the view we should keep the police out of politics in Britain, or we risk going the way of American politics, where the Whitewater investigation lasted virtually the whole of the two terms of the Clinton administration but turned up nothing.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020