#politics

I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journalism. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#journalism #liberal #objectivity #politics #journalist

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

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In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#statesmanship #equality

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom. ↗

— Jim Hightower

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What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? ↗

— Gilbert Highet

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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism. ↗

— Jim Hightower

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No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

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The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there. ↗

— John Hughes

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