Politics Quotes
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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.
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Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
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Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.
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I always had this feeling when writing about all politics... that when it's so lopsided, that if a newspaper or news organization has any weight whatsoever, it should automatically go to the other side.
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What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
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We can restore that vital trust between politics and the people.
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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
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If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.
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Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.
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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.
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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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President Obama, right after the Gabby Gifford shooting said we need to usher in a new era of civil discourse in politics. But not heeding his own advice.
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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
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I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.
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My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.
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What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
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The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
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I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.
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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.
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I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
