Political Life Quotes - Page 2

• The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Political, Voting, Identity

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• Political life loves some volatility.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Love Life, Political, Volatility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Children, Hate, Ignorance

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• Cameras are dangerous. With no waiting period or background check, any whack-job could just stroll into a Wal-Mart and walk out with a semi-automatic. Now, for years I've been pressing for stricter regulations on cameras, especially around our elected officials. Too many political lives have been cut short by some crazed shooter.

  Stephen Colbert

  Jobs, Cutting, Years

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• I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

  Max Beckmann

  Real, Political

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• Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

  Max Beckmann

  Real, Men, Political

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• The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

  Paul Keating

  Political, Life Is, Modern

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Russia, Media

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• Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Decision, Political, Used

  "John & Elizabeth Edwards Open Up About Cancer and Family". Interview With Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. March 28, 2007.

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• If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the masses, then we may say, with equal justification, that the Age of Television has taken politics away from the adult mind altogether.

  Neil Postman

  Taken, Hands, Political

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• All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

  Enoch Powell

  Cutting, Political, Affair

  1977 Joseph Chamberlain.

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• I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Political, Might, Matter

  Rosalynn Carter (2016). “First Lady from Plains”, p.185, University of Arkansas Press

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• We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

  John le Carre

  Years, Political, Spy

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• Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

  Charles Dickens

  Political, Preparation

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• We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Religious, Jesus, Icons

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• I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

  Peter Singer

  Political, Answers, Too Much

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• If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.

  Marco Rubio

  Running, Party, Home

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• Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Responsibility, Political, Intellectual

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• Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

  Aristotle

  Life, Political, Politics

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• I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

  George Osborne

  Believe, Political, Limits

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• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Years, Year End, Political

  V.S. Naipaul (2010). “The Writer and the World: Essays”, p.490, Vintage

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• A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

  John Stuart Mill

  Life, Party, Order

  'On Liberty' (1859) ch. 2

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• Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.

  James McGreevey

  Political, Identity, Campaigns

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• In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

  Walter Lippmann

  Passion, Men, Office

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.464, Harvard University Press

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• People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

  Thomas Frank

  People, Political, Fundamentals

  Thomas Frank (2007). “What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America”, p.1, Macmillan

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