Politics Quotes
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After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.
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I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
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I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
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Constant conflict is actually often good politics. Because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at election day. And if they're more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win, because your crowd will show up.
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My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country.
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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There is a major difference between theoretical knowledge and experiential knowledge. Academics think they know how the economy should work; successful business owners know how the economy does work. They have been there and done it. Our government should be turning to those who have experiential knowledge when it comes to solving our fiscal problems. They would realize that many of their current policies may sound good but don’t work in the real world and must be abandoned. They would spend less and live within their means. They would be promoting the creation of more entrepreneurs and business owners, instead of hiring more bureaucrats, consulting more academics, and enlisting more lawyers to harass and prosecute the true wealth creators of this nation.
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The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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Politicians always do a two-step, depending on what their district politics looks like.
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The call to public service is stronger than the politics of fear, ... I'm going to take back this seat in the 9th District.
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There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem.
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Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.
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Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.
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Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.
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There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
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What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
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Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.
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Certain developments in Russian politics and foreign policy in recent months have given us pause
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I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.
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We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
