- Negative
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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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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.
- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
- None
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- Nov 07, 2020