Political Life Quotes
78 Political Life quotes by 69 unique authors
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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
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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,…
— John le Carre
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I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.
— Hillary Clinton
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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
— Aristotle
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I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said…
— Ronald Reagan
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The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It's the only activity that gives me some hope…
— J. William Fulbright
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of…
— Navi Pillay
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Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to…
— James Madison
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Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.
— Michael Pare
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Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic positionThe operation in Gaza…
— Unknown Author
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I am determined to elect a president of our choosing this year and one who will be deeply indebted, and who will recognize his indebtedness.…
— Howard Hughes
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Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
— Henry F. Ashurst
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of…
— Wendell Phillips
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I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
— Nancy Reagan
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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to…
— Ludwig von Mises
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It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to…
— Richard Hofstadter
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
— Beatrice Webb
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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…
— Rosalynn Carter
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When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
— Margaret Thatcher
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The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable…
— Daniel O'Connell
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I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore…
— Ivan Illich
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The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first Administration.
— Mitch McConnell
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