954 private quotes tagged politics

“In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.” — Pericles

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“War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.” — Colin Powell

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“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.” — George Jean Nathan

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“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.” — John Stuart Mill

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“I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.” — LL Cool J

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“We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.” — Stephen King

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“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.” — Henry Adams

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“There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.” — Thomas Huxley

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“What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.” — Nick Clegg

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“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.” — Stendhal

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“One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.” — Sarah Jessica Parker

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“The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.” — Otto von Bismarck

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“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“In Pakistan politics is hereditary.” — Imran Khan

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“The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.” — Donald Rumsfeld

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“Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.” — Jonathan Swift

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“First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.” — Nate Silver

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“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” — John Quincy Adams

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