Politics Quotes
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Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
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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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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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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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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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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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Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.
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The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
