Politics Quotes
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In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.
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Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
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We can restore that vital trust between politics and the people.
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In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.
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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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Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality.
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But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
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Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.
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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.
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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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One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.
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Destiny planned out, I don't need no hand out.
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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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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
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We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.
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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
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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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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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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition
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I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.
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Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.
