Quotes with [politics]

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  • Barack Obama In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
    Speech DNC, 2004
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Winston Churchill In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Armstrong Williams In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Casey Wilson Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Caroline Leavitt Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Ronald Reagan It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Bob Geldof It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Angela Davis It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bert Lance Jesse Jackson is not anti-Semitic, but in politics, you always get in trouble when you try to be cute.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
    Wit and Wisdom
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Saul Alinsky Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Beau Willimon Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • E. L. Doctorow Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
    E. L. Doctorow
    American writer (1931 - 2015)
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  • Theresa May Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
    (2005)
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
    Hans Magnus Enzensberger
    German author, poet, translator and editor (1929 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. That fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bob Geldof Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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