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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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- Nov 07, 2020
Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is in my blood.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family has always said... if you're going to get into politics, do it for the right reasons, not because you've got to carry on something.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love politics, but from the sidelines.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had an interest in politics - I can't deny that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.
- American Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next great technology revolution might be around the corner, but it won't automatically improve most people's lives. That will depend on politics, which is indeed ugly but also inescapable.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics demands certain skills honed by experience, just as journalism does, just as acting does.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My readers know my views on politics and politicians because I make no secret of them in my comments for 'The New Yorker' and elsewhere.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the mystique of blogs is their protean quality: They work both sides of the divide between politics and media, further blurring the already fuzzy distinctions between reporter, pundit, political operative, activist, and citizen.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020