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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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- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't like arrogance or bullies.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 23, I didn't have much of an interest in politics. All of my interests were in partying and meeting girls and doing stand-up. That's all I cared about. Now, when you have a kid and stuff, you start watching the news and say, 'They shouldn't take money away from this education department.' You start having much more exact opinions.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.
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- Nov 07, 2020
English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.
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- Nov 07, 2020
True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020