Eugene McCarthy Quotes
In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.
Quotes to Explore
-
Politics is the art of the next best.
-
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
-
I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
-
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
-
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
-
But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
-
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
-
I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
-
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
-
In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
-
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
-
I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
-
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
-
The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.
-
To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.
-
Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
-
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
-
My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.
-
I have never believed in the impossible.
-
There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
-
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.
-
You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
-
Firestarter' was a risk, we had never done a fully vocal track before and Keith had never sung before. It was hardly the safe option. We could have turned out the same old tunes over and over again, but that's not what The Prodigy are about. We are about taking risks.
-
In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.
