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" Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Political
Serious
Debate
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Ronaldinho
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People
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" Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process. "
Donna Brazile
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Business
Political
" I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Days
Language
I Can
" There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Only
Economic
Growth
" Kids are disorganized. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Disorganized
Kids
" Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Wrong
Time
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" Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics. "
Kevin Rudd
Support
Politics
Back
" I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life. "
Marat Safin
Politics
Life
Society
" America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are. "
P. J. O'Rourke
America
Nation
Only
" Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. "
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Politics
Smart
Person
" There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Women
Number
Mechanical
" Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do. "
Marianne Williamson
" Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics. "
Shirin Neshat
Being
Our
Political
" Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Tell
Family
Barn
" The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Line
You
Retirement
" I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined. "
Bob Geldof
Music
Lucky
Time
" After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. "
George C. Wallace
Political
Feel
Mountain
" Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness - but it's nevertheless a politics of outrage, animated by at least a trace of envy. It's as if 'millionaires and billionaires' were the principal problem facing America today. "
Cass Sunstein
Envy
Problem
Today
" Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Economics
Mine
Obsession
" How I'd like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn't even care to know the prime minister's name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me. "
Sayed Kashua
Start
Me
Life
" When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality. "
Cory Booker
Judging
Politics
Tea
" You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Down
America
You
" Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. "
Kinky Friedman
More
You
Politics
" Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Jack
Best
Federal
" Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for. "
Bobby Seale
Politics
Always
Black
" Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it. "
Marianne Williamson
" If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. "
Meg Greenfield
Years
Will
Gone
" No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Journalism
Memory
Print
" Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance. "
Sun Yat-sen
Only
Remember
Party
" Politics have no relation to morals. "
Niccolo Machiavelli
Relation
Morals
Politics