Politics Quotes - Page 22

• If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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

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• There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Government, Law, Political

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• Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Home, Ignorance, Political

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• Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Thug, Labour Movement, Political

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• You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Party, Political, Together

  "Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches". Book edited by Stephen Marion Reynolds and Bruce Rogers, 1908.

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• We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate.

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Strong, Party

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• I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Political, Actors, World

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• When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

  Joan Blades

  Responsibility, Support, Political

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

  James Madison

  Government, Justice, Voting

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.241

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• A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

  Albert Pike

  War, Principles, Rehabilitation

  Albert Pike (1950). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.58, Library of Alexandria

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• I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Decision, Nerd, Important

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• He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

  Henry Adams

  Cheer, Purpose, Certain

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.445, BookRix

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• The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

  Caleb Carr

  Political, Definitions, Terrorism

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• In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.

  Morton Blackwell

  Volunteer, Faster, Builder

  "The Law of Politics". Book by Graeme Orr, 2010.

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• Sound doctrine is sound politics.

  Morton Blackwell

  Sound Doctrine, Sound, Doctrine

  "The Law of Politics". Book by Graeme Orr, 2010.

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• We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Class, Society, Politician

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1315, e-artnow

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• He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Important, Society

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.26, OUP Oxford

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• My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

  Jesse Jackson

  Desperate, Politician, Disrespected

  1984 Speech at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 17 Jul.

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• Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Hypocrisy, Evil

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Time, Godly

  Thomas Jefferson (1774). “A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)”, p.31, Academic Resources Corp

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• Fascism is capitalism in decay.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Decay, Revolutionary

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  Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business, Tolerance, Democracy

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• Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Generations, Next, Responsible

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• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

  Plato

  Plato, Freedom, Men

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  The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

  Theodore White

  Freedom, Nerd, Democracy

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