“For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.”
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“It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'”
“Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.”
“Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.”
“I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.”
“We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.”
“I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.”
“As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now I'm not going to say what they were.”
“We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.”
“I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.”
“In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.”
“Money in politics is a huge issue.”
“I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.”
“If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.”
“People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.”
“There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.”
“This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.”
“Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.”
“I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.”
“Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.”
“First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot.”
“The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.”
“On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.”
“The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.”