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Negative politics have always been around. -- Karl Rove
Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties. -- Mark McKinnon
It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative. -- John Bolton
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. -- G. M. Trevelyan
There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics. -- Alastair Campbell
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. -- Mitt Romney
While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future. -- John Podhoretz
Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks. -- Scott Walker
So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so. -- Eric Alterman
Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive. -- Ron Fournier
We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. -- Eric Liu
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative. -- Susie Orbach
Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil. -- Richard Dreyfuss
I most certainly am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community. I don't have an opinion on people with different religious, sexual or political preferences. I'm one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that. -- CeeLo Green
Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it works. But tearing down the other guy has another attraction: It can be a substitute for building much of a case for what the mudslinger will do once in office. -- Robert Dallek
American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways. -- Bryce Dessner
You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative. -- Sam Altman
We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. -- Barack Obama

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