- Just
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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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- Daily Lives
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is not something most people have to do every day. Their daily lives are much more influenced by job opportunities, whether the country is in a recession or a boom period. If you really want to understand what drives American history, look at the economic... side.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
- Cards
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope springs eternal, even in politics.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved covering presidential politics - not so much because of the candidates but because of the people it allowed me to talk to.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authentic apology is a tricky thing to pull off in politics, which is why it so seldom occurs. Plausible deniability must be preserved. True contrition has to be displayed. Traitors to the cause must be immediately be jettisoned. Most of all, the goal is to stop the bleeding.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020