Politics Quotes
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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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Everyone knows that I have just accepted, with short notice, the worst job in politics.
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When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.
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Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.
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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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There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
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We can restore that vital trust between politics and the people.
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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
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The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.
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I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.
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Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible about Europeans preening and posing as a great power when they can't even stop some nickel'n'dime Balkan genital-severers piling up hundreds of thousands of corpses on their borders.
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The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
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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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Politics is far more complicated than physics.
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The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.
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Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.
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Some say this country's just out looking for a fight, after 9/11 man, I'd have to say that's right.
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It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
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There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.
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I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.
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Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
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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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Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
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Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
