Politics Quotes
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Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.
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It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom.
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Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.
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Protest politics has been vibrant against Bush and the war in Iraq, but it's been intergenerational. This doesn't seem to be a resurgence of student activism.
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No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.
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We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.
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I'm not like most people around here who politick with you guys.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
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A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.
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Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me...
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Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.
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How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing? Roosevelt was cripple, Lincoln was a geek, they'd never get elected, their clothes were never chic.
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Idea is a noble one — an idea that fills and expands all generous souls; the idea of equality — the equality of all men before human tribunals and human laws, as they all are equal before the Divine tribunal and Divine laws.
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Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.
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Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.
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Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.
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I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.
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Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.
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If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.
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Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.
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Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
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I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.
