- Ethics
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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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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
- Entitled
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- Nov 07, 2020
But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
- Fondly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had a choice, I would rather watch a comedian not involve themselves in politics at all but be hilarious than someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about getting on their soapbox and complaining.
- Greed
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I think was a really lucky coincidence was that a lot of the themes of 'Okja' are things I write about a lot: cognitive dissonance and corporate greed and also the internal politics of fringe groups.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't be a career, and I never intended to make it one.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. They're worried about getting re-elected.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you're talking about using humor in politics or in a policy speech or in a serious moment, you're talking about using it as a tool to engage people. That's why putting a joke in a political speech is a luxury, and it is always a risk.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a joke works, it works. It can make a point in a really simple way; it can be a great little sound bite to put on television or share on social media. Humor has this incredible power in how we communicate about politics now, in part because there's something natural in the way it's communicated.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a really fun career in TV right after I left politics.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grass-roots politics, linking small-dollar fundraising to massive local volunteer organization, showed that it can rival the power of a right-wing machine comprising super PACs backed by entrenched interests and mega-donors.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020