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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 one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

    Men   Two   Political  
  • I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

  • The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

  • I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan Collini's phrase, "public moralists" and politicians, plutocrats, bankers, arms dealers, and experts and technocrats were not solely defining the moral norms as well as the political lives of our societies. We do have some writers claiming to be public moralists, but, as I said, they have actually been more jingoistic than even the henchmen of Bush and Blair.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

  • The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

    Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.54, University of Chicago Press
  • 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. Since I am willing to go beyond all limitations on this, I think we should be able to select a candidate and a party who knows the facts of political life....If we select Nixon, then he, I know for sure knows the facts of life.

    Party   Thinking   Years  
  • The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.

  • I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

    "Business: The Ultimate Resource". Book by Daniel P. Goleman, 2002.
  • To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.

    Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.
  • Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking as firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain.

    Running   Art   Lying  
    Vladimir Ilích Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1988). “What is to be done?”, Penguin Classics
  • A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor of two presidential campaigns and my duties as First Lady took me to every state in our union and to seventy-eight nations. In each place, I met someone or saw something that caused me to open my mind and my heart and deepen my understanding of the universal concerns that most of humanity shares.

    Heart   Eight   Two  
  • The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable and legal course, and cannot be obtained by forcible means, or if they could be got by forcible means, such means create more evils than they cure, and leave the country worse than they found it.

    Country   Mean   Evil  
  • In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

    Passion   Men   Office  
    Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.464, Harvard University Press
  • People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

    Thomas Frank (2007). “What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America”, p.1, Macmillan
  • Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

    "Sketches from Life". Book by Samuel Laman Blanchard, Volumes 1-2, 1846.
  • In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support my legislation.

    "CNN-Edited Interview Proves that Dr. Duke is Right about Zio-Censorship!". CNN Interview, davidduke.com. January 7, 2015.
  • My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

  • There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

  • Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice is always an agon, a conflict, and to refuse this assertion is to consign human beings to wallow in some emotional, fusional balm.

  • Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

    V.S. Naipaul (2010). “The Writer and the World: Essays”, p.490, Vintage
  • Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

    Views   Political   Needs  
    Source: www.wanliss.com
  • 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 outrage that over half a million women die annually from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is nearly half the annual global death toll, and arguably, a direct reflection of the disempowerment of women in social, economic and political life.

  • I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.

  • Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.

  • If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

  • I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

  • 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 of relative values.

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