Politics Quotes
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.
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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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I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.
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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.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.
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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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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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The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
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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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Politics have no relation to morals.
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Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.
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The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
