Politic Quotes (page 3)

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• people
• change
• good

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant. Vernor Vinge

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• controls

Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment. Hunter S. Thompson

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• political

Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun... Mao Zedong

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• earth

Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground. David R. Brower

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• political
• fruit

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. Lucille Ball

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• promise

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power. Their first rule is “don’t rock the boat.” If someone makes trouble and you can get him, do it. If you can’t get him, bring him in. Give him some of the action, let him have a taste of power. Power is all anyone wants, and if he has a promise of it as a reward for being good, he’ll be good. Anyone who does not play by those rules is incomprehensible to most politicians. Shirley Chisholm

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• country

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives, lessening human suffering, advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in the world. Paul Wellstone

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• different

Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much. Paul Krugman

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• public

Politics is a process which should slowly bring to public all the private worries and hopes of the individual. Theodore White

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• truths

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth Bertrand Russell

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• political

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for. Molly Ivins

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• resourcefulness
• political will

political will is a renewable resource Al Gore

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• stressful

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public Robert Hughes

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• political
• reality

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities. Charles de Gaulle

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• interests

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. Ambrose Bierce