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Definitions and meanings of word "politics"

• Noun: social relations involving authority or power

• Noun: the study of government of states and other political units

• Noun: the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs

• Noun: the opinion you hold with respect to political questions

Featured authors with quotes containing word "politics"

Paul Wellstone
12 quotes about politics
American Politician
Friday 21 July 1944 - Friday 25 October 2002
Benjamin Disraeli
8 quotes about politics
British Statesman
Friday 21 December 1804 - Tuesday 19 April 1881
Winston Churchill
6 quotes about politics
English Statesman, Leader, Politician
Monday 30 November 1874 - Sunday 24 January 1965
Will Rogers
5 quotes about politics
American Actor
Tuesday 4 November 1879 - Thursday 15 August 1935
Chris Patten
5 quotes about politics
British Politician, Administrator
Born Friday 12 May 1944
Kate Millett
3 quotes about politics
American Writer, Activist
Friday 14 September 1934 - Wednesday 6 September 2017
Otto von Bismarck
6 quotes about politics
German Statesman, Leader
Saturday 1 April 1815 - Thursday 30 June 1898
Christopher Lasch
4 quotes about politics
American Critic, Historian
Wednesday 1 June 1932 - Monday 14 February 1994
P. J. O'Rourke
3 quotes about politics
American Writer, Author, Journalist, Comedian
Born Friday 14 November 1947
Joe Eszterhas
3 quotes about politics
Hungarian Writer
Born Thursday 23 November 1944
Ed Gillespie
4 quotes about politics
American Politician, Vice President
Born Wednesday 1 August 1962
Charles Kennedy
5 quotes about politics
British Politician
Wednesday 25 November 1959 - Monday 1 June 2015

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

Paul Wellstone

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Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.

Paul Wellstone

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The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Paul Wellstone

Words: introduction, religious, passion, politics, end, honest, religion, prostitution, true
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Paul Wellstone

Words: politics, repetition, change, something, beyond, call, essence, supposed, means, bring, being
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What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.

Paul Wellstone

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Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

Paul Wellstone

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Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

Paul Wellstone

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I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

Paul Wellstone

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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

Paul Wellstone

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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

Paul Wellstone

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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

Paul Wellstone

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I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

Paul Wellstone

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I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.

Paul Wellstone

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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

Paul Wellstone

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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Paul Wellstone

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I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Paul Wellstone

Words: come, politics, change, labour, party, came, country
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In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Paul Wellstone

Words: end, election, about, participate, politics, cynicism, hope
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It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Paul Wellstone

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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Paul Wellstone

Words: age, thing, keeping, politics, all, issues, political, mass, lies, evasions, folly, hatred, schizophrenia
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Paul Wellstone

Words: turn, politics, will
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