“There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.”
— Alan Clark
Author: Alan Clark
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Politics I conceive to be nothing more
“Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.”
— Woodrow Wilson
Author: Woodrow Wilson
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These days politics, religion, media seem to
“These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.”
— Van Morrison
Author: Van Morrison
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The whole aim of practical politics is
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
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I played by the rules of politics
“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”
— Richard M. Nixon
Author: Richard M. Nixon
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My dream of politics all my life
“My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.”
— Woodrow Wilson
Author: Woodrow Wilson
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A purely objective viewpoint does not exist
“A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.”
— Howard Fineman
Author: Howard Fineman
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The world of politics is always twenty
“The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.”
— John Jay Chapman
Author: John Jay Chapman
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One of the penalties for refusing to
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
— Plato
Author: Plato
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Whether one believes or not, religion is
“Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.”
— Jon Meacham
Author: Jon Meacham
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I was in civil society long before
“I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.”
— Hillary Clinton
Author: Hillary Clinton
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