Politics
Kubek is a committed Democrat. In 1976, he declined to come to South Carolina to campaign for former teammate Bobby Richardson, a Republican, who ended up losing a close race for the U.S. House of Representatives to incumbent Democrat Kenneth Holland by a 51% to 48% margin.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.”
—Philippe Sollers (b. 1936)
“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)