Politics Quotes
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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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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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The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.
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Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Politics won't allow for the truth.
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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 love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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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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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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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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It's important not to take yourself too seriously, ... and I think sometimes people take us a lot more seriously than we take ourselves, especially when it comes to politics. Politics, for me, is a reflection of the world I live in. But love is just as important as politics to me. They both exist in the world, you know? And if you don't reflect the entire world around you, then you're leaving something out.
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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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Politics have no relation to morals.
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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
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Politics: a Trojan horse race.
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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
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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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Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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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.
