#politics

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Nothing is irreparable in politics. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#nothing #politics

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself. ↗

— Simon Armitage

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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ↗

— Richard Armour

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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#desire #first #law #make #must

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics. ↗

— Michael Bennett

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It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative. ↗

— John Bolton

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I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

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It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. ↗

— James Bovard

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It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together? ↗

— LeVar Burton

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