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Freedom
Own
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
- A. J. Liebling
Politician
Prefer
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
- A. N. Wilson
Post
Elected
The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Development
Equal
What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Stupid
Damage
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
- A. S. Byatt
Think
Happen
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
- Aaron Levie
Young
Been
The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
- Aaron Schock
Die
Never
In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
- Aaron Schock
Sophisticated
I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
- Aaron Sorkin
Always
Mean
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
- Abba Eban
Films
Anchored
I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
- Abbas Kiarostami
Business
I'm not in the business of politics.
- Abby Wambach
Division
Prevent
Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.
- Abdolkarim Soroush
Always
Very
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Every Day
Right
I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
- Abraham A. Ribicoff
Stronger
Ballot
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln
Art
Given
Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
- Adam Michnik
Different Worlds
Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
- Adam Michnik
Art
Realizing
Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
- Adam Michnik
Own
TV
I talk about any number of things on my Facebook space. Politics. Current events. The writing life. The latest tempests in a teapot centering on fandom. Daily doings from my own life. My cats, for crying out loud. Flights of humorous fantasy. Books, both those I've read and those I've written. Movies. And occasionally, TV shows.
- Adam-Troy Castro
About
Seasoned
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
Been
Telling
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
Independent
Take
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
Process
Think
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
Important
Most
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
Country
Other
It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.
- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Public
Hang
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop
Artist
Some
If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.
- Afrika Bambaataa
Government
Iraq
Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
- Ahmed Chalabi
Architecture
Very
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
- Ai Weiwei
Comedy
Been
Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
- Al Franken
Doing
Next
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
- Al Franken
Career
Serve
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
- Al Franken
Thought
Reason
The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
- Al Franken
Business
Humor
There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.
- Al Franken
Vietnam
Then
I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
- Al Franken
Vice
Other
I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.
- Al Gore
Impossible
About
There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
- Al Gore
Think
Tattoos
I don't think we have the right haircut or tattoos for politics.
- Al Jourgensen
Advocating
Throughout my years championing for civil rights, analyzing politics and advocating on behalf of the voiceless, I am disturbed the most when harmless children suffer because of politics or detrimental policies.
- Al Sharpton
Me
Never
In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!
- Alain Juppe
Waiting
Traces
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
- Alan Clark
Affect
Wider
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
- Alan Dean Foster
Best
Had
The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.
- Alan Greenspan
Question
Asking
By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'
- Alastair Campbell
Which
Coverage
There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
- Alastair Campbell
Political
About
There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?
- Alaya Dawn Johnson
I Am
Wanting
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
- Albert Camus
Eternity
Equation
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
- Albert Einstein
Get Together
Like
When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.
- Albert Hammond, Jr.
Nation
Principle
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
- Albert Pike
Game
Other
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money.
- Alberto Manguel
Business
May
I'm constantly looking for ways to learn and elevate your craft, patience for yourself, and patience for this business. It's not a fair business. You may be great, but it may take years for someone to notice what you're capable of because of politics.
- Aldis Hodge
War
Monstrous
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
- Aldous Huxley
Think
I Think
I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.
- Alec Baldwin
My Life
Will
The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Will
Still
I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.
- Aleqa Hammond
Everybody
Fairly
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
- Alex Cox
Within
Yes
That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.
- Alex Cox
Bad
Other
We're getting the sort of 'compromise' American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.
- Alex Pareene
Big
Placed
In the America that I grew up in, men of Asia placed last in the hierarchy of manhood. They were invisible in the high-testosterone arenas of politics, big business, and sports. On television and in the movies, they were worse than invisible. They were embarrassing. We were embarrassing.
- Alex Tizon
Aim
Persecution
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
- Alexander Hamilton
Polite
Russian
It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.
- Alexander Lebedev
Young
Been
Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help that we are largely overlooked. There have been policies to woo parents, pensioners and the sick, but the young do not appear to rank high on any political agenda.
- Alexandra Adornetto
Love
Think
I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
- Alexandra Fuller
Impossible
Ellen
Comedy and politics have a lot in common. Both are great ways to pick up chicks - just look at Governor Spitzer. Or Ellen Degeneres. Both require spending time on the road meeting strangers who often have the desire to throw things at you. Both are difficult, if not impossible, to do all alone. And both rely heavily on personality.
- Alexandra Petri
Grow
Grew
I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.
- Alexandra Wentworth
Through
Been
Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.
- Alexei Navalny
Sophisticated
I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.
- Alexei Sayle
Young
Took
I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
- Alexi Giannoulias
Men
Principle
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Always
Shared
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
Believe
Heroes
I don't believe there are heroes or saviours in politics.
- Alexis Tsipras
War
Means
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
- Alfred Adler
Pay
Does
Crime does not pay as well as politics.
- Alfred Newman
Here
Internal
We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.
- Alfredo Stroessner
Celebrity
Image
I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.
- Alison Jackson
Hollywood
Over
Unfortunately, many talented people in Hollywood find their values and politics do not reflect the content they create, and many movie themes are in direct contrast with over half of today's American families.
- Allen Covert
See
More
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
Leader
Tabloid
America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.
- Alveda King
Historic
Might
African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
- Alveda King
Voice
Been
Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations.
- Aman Mojadidi
Modernization
The body of work I create combines traditional storylines and postmodern narrative strategies to approach themes such as belonging, identity politics and conflict, as well as the push towards - and resistance against - modernization.
- Aman Mojadidi
Want
Middle
I must try desperately to absorb all information I can about the Middle East. I want to excel. I want to speak articulately about the politics of the Middle East and its religion.
- Amanda Lindhout
Young
Bush
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.
- Amber Tamblyn
Private
Strife
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
- Ambrose Bierce
Hands
Other
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
- Ambrose Bierce
Conservative
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
- Ambrose Bierce
Country
Given
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
- Ambrose Bierce
Change
Form
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
- Ambrose Bierce
Prime
Period
I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.
- Ami Ayalon
Emotion
Realised
I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics.
- Amitabh Bachchan
Failure
Qualified
I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.
- Amitabh Bachchan
Play
Back
I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.
- Amitabh Bachchan
Never
Learned
I know I should have never got into politics. And I've learned my lesson. No more politics.
- Amitabh Bachchan
Country
Asking
I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an actor, and when they liked me as an actor, I told them, 'Now, you like my politics.'
- Amitabh Bachchan
Play
Discovered
I ended up in Parliament and soon discovered that emotion really doesn't have any place in politics. It's a much more intricate and complicated game, and I just didn't know how to play it.
- Amitabh Bachchan
Goal
Keeping
Keeping politics out of the courtroom is a goal every state aspires to achieve.
- Amul Thapar
Practice
I Think
As a U.S. Senator, I've tried my best to practice politics the way I think it's supposed to be practiced - always looking for common ground and truly enjoying the people I meet along the way.
- Amy Klobuchar
Thought
Dress
For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought, 'Anything is possible.'
- Amy Klobuchar
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