Political Games Quotes

• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  Indira Gandhi

  Life, Friendship, Leadership

  "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders". The New York Times, October 20, 1971.

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• People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

  Indira Gandhi

  Rights, People, Remember

  Indira Gandhi, Fatma Zakaria (1984). “Last Words”

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• You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Anger, Hands

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• In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the many who may have been disaffected and left confused by political games, deceit and showmanship. The people first must transcend every level of society.

  Najib Razak

  Confused, Games, People

  "Quotable quotes from Najib". New Srtaits Times, July 11, 2009.

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• Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

  Charles R. Swindoll (2004). “Improving Your Serve”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. Its a callous political game.

  Rob Bishop

  Games, Political, Callous

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• Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.

  John Daly

  Fighting, Organization, Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Real, Games, Political

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Party, Games, Confusion

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get to the point of rolling film and until you lock picture it's one political game after another. They're both struggles for survival. They are two different worlds.

  George Hickenlooper

  Struggle, Two, Games

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.

  Kevin Bales

  Confused, Book, Games

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• I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

  Ice Cube

  Jobs, Games, Political

  "Ice Cube: No one plays with Obama" by Kendall Breitman, www.politico.com. June 17, 2014.

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• All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

  Indira Gandhi

  Games, Cynical, Political

  Indira Gandhi (1985). “Selected Thoughts of Indira Gandhi: A Book of Quotes”, p.172, Mittal Publications

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• IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is almost impossible to come up with a solution that would exclude him. The political game appears to be very cynical indeed.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Games, Political

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Party, Games, People

  "INTERVIEW: Tariq Ramadan on political Islam's 'necessary crisis'". Interview with Hassina Mechaï, www.middleeasteye.net. April 2, 2016.

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• There's a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military strategy. It doesn't have an economic and political game plan.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Military, Games, Track

  Source: progressive.org

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• The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?

  David Plouffe

  Teacher, Jobs, Games

  "White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.

  A. J. Liebling

  Games, Play, New Orleans

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