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It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out. -- Jeff Ament
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open. -- Woodrow Wilson
Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission Â? that's not bad politics, that's robbery. -- Paul Newman
Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act... -- Ai Weiwei
Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election. -- Narendra Modi
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
The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results. -- Omar Bongo
If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business. -- Charles E. Merrill
I know the good from the bad, also the in-between, but I was never political. -- Luise Rainer
Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading. -- Michael Ignatieff
It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly. -- Nate Lowman
If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame. -- Michael Ignatieff
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. -- Ronald Reagan
I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically. -- Karl Rove
While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes. -- Jamie Dimon
Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart. -- Jeb Bush
Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country. -- Helen Suzman
This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys. -- Thomas Frank
It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics. -- Roger Ebert
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience. -- Joe Wright
As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress. -- Rosie Perez
First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let's just keep some perspective here. -- Marco Rubio
Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times. -- Ben Bernanke
It gave dirty politics a bad name. -- Bob Hope
I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song. -- Greg Brown
There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. -- Thomas Sowell
Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool. -- Jacob Weisberg
Nothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears. -- Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth
The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis. -- Anat R. Admati
I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government. -- Harold Washington
Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. -- Tom Robbins
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. -- Peter Schjeldahl
As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry. -- Adrienne Rich
politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names -- Louisa May Alcott
Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now. -- Jaroslaw Kaczynski
Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be that way. -- Richard Sherman
Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology. -- Geoffrey Hinton
Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings. -- Dan Gelber
Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst. -- Jonas Jonasson
Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point. -- Richard Turner
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. -- Walter Lippmann
In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often. -- Paul Bloom
Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor. -- Angelina Jolie
ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting. -- Ambrose Bierce

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