Politics Quotes
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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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.
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I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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A globalist is a person that wants the globe to do well, frankly not caring about the country so much. You know, we can't have that.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
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I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to politics. He's a good man, a man who cares. It's good to have people like that in politics, I have no problem with that.
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Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
