politics quotes

• Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic? Does it make sense politically to tell Americans that more than 1,800 troops have died to make life worse for half of Iraq’s population? (Robert Novak) [facts/politics/more/life]
• My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows. (Kid Rock) [right/politics/right/politics]
• “I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.” (Suzanne Farrell) [think/life/politics]
• I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. (George Gordon Byron) [politics]
• Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. (Ambrose Bierce) [politics]
• Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. (Ambrose Bierce) [politics/office/people/condition]
• There is a thin line between politics and theatricals. (Julian Bond) [politics]
• If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded. (Millicent Fawcett) [influence/politics/school/words]
• “In the end, ... that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?” (Barack Obama) [politics/cynicism/politics]
• “The encouraging thing is that in the aftermath of this fiasco everybody is outraged and the generosity of white suburban Republicans as well as black liberal Democrats indicates that the country wants better from its government and wants better from its politics, ... The burden is on us as Democrats, the burden is on me as a U.S. senator to help bridge that gap.” (Barack Obama) [thing/government/politics]
• Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics. (Warren Beatty) [people/politics]
• When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. (John Cusack) [politics/death/aesthetics/truth]
• There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. (Robert Peel) [facts/facts/politics]
• Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively. (Jiang Zemin) [politics]
• Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (Brooks Adams) [politics]

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