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" In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. "
H. G. Wells
Politics
Enough
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" Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture. "
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" Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it. "
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" Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats. "
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" Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "
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" At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. "
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" The longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats. "
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" Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection. "
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" The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. "
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" No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles. "
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Culture
" Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. "
Maynard Jackson
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Not Perfect
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" When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose. "
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Up
End
Race
" I deeply believe - and not just as a matter of politics, but even as a matter of morality - that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. And the last thing we need is government intruding into those personal decisions. "
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Government
" Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. "
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" I played by the rules of politics as I found them. "
Richard M. Nixon
Rules
Found
Played
" Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. "
H. G. Wells
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Jealousy
Moral
" Trauma and sexual abuse are two of our most pressing human and societal problems. They must be studied by unbiased scientific investigation rather than polarized by hysteria and politics. "
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" I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. "
David Mamet
Gag
About
Ask
" Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. "
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Just Because
Mean
Just
" Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. "
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Politics
Beyond
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" I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. "
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" Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. "
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President
Just
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" I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. "
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" When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. "
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Discussion
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" I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn't be in politics, now are saying, 'Oh, wait, I don't need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I'll run, too.' "
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" I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation. "
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" Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "
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Organization
" I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man. "
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Know
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" I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "
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