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"I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt."

Nate Silver on Politics

More quotes about Politics

  • "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

    John F. Kennedy on Politics

  • "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

    Mark Twain on Politics

  • "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

    Plato on Politics

  • "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

    Milton Friedman on Politics

  • "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

    Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Nate Silver

  • "I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation."

  • "When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen."

  • "When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake."

  • "Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge."

  • "We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise."

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