Politics Quotes
-
If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.
-
Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.
-
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.
-
Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment.
-
Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.
-
As a teenager, I was involved in animal rights activism, and followed the tail end of the first wave of AIDS awareness – I was going to protests, and plugged in to all these causes, but I never really made the connection to electoral politics.
-
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.
-
I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
-
The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
-
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.
-
I cannot do politics under someone else's control.
-
I'm not like most people around here who politick with you guys.
-
Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.
-
Having a good and cultured family background was not enough to be successful in politics. One should live amidst farmers, till land, and tend cows and buffaloes.
-
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
-
I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.
-
A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.
-
I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.
-
Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.
-
It will be politics that determines the material welfare of future generations: the pace at which we advance toward "our destination of economic bliss," andnperhaps, whether we continue to advance at all.
-
He was eccentric. He was no prince in his social attitudes and his politics. But Henry Ford's mark in history is almost unbelievable.
-
What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
-
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
-
Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.
