Politics Quotes
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There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney.
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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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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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I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a Prime Minister.
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Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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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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I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.
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Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.
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The overflow of big money in politics drowns out the voices of everyday people. That is part of the conundrum in America: The more money you have the more speech you have. That leaves everyday people out of the equation.
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I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.
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I wish I could separate trauma from politics, but as long as we continue to live in denial and treat only trauma while ignoring its origins, we are bound to fail. In today's world your ZIP code, even more than your genetic code, determines whether you will lead a safe and healthy life. People's income, family structure, housing, employment, and educational opportunities not only affect their risk of developing traumatic stress but also their access to effective help to address it. Poverty, unemployment, inferior schools, social isolation, widespread availability of guns, and substandard housing all are breeding grounds for trauma. Trauma breeds further trauma; hurt people hurt other people.
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The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
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The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.
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People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.
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Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
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It's not partisan, ... I don't think education can be a partisan issue if we're going to be successful. Partisan politics in this country can get things stuck. It needs to be what can we do for the next generation of kids. And what do they need.
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Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.
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If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.
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The time of our production had absolutely nothing to do with politics or tactics.
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I'm Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.
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When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.
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After Charlottesville, our politics have now borne witness to a U.S. president at times openly defending neo-Nazis and white supremacists before condemning them.
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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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There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons.
