- Future
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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
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole point of politics is to stay in touch, to be relevant to modern problems, to offer people relief from current worries, to give them hope based on contemporary experience.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been born a Republican. My dad was an active Republican, but he was not active in politics and I really never was either. It's true that I did belong to that party, but it really had very little impact on my public work or my private views.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it.
- Politician
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.
- Regret
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
- Dr. King
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- Nov 07, 2020