Politics Quotes
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The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.
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In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.
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The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.
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It's a good line to say we're going to get money out of politics. I don't know how realistic it is.
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Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
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Architecture is politics.
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They learned how to put up a pretty good bluff—and bluff counts a lot in politics.
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Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of the people: in our case, with the President and the Congress. If these two follow economic policies inimical to the general welfare, they are accountable to the people for their actions on election day. With Federal Reserve independence, however, a body of men exist who control one of the most powerful levers moving the economy and who are responsible to no one.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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The crows demur at first, but soon grow bold and eat. He talks to them. He tells them of all the things that bother him—that the politics have changed but the politicians are still the same exact people as back in the sixties, only balder and fatter; he tells them that nobody cares about anything important anymore. He tells them that freedom has nothing to do with money, or the McDonald’s restaurants. The crows stop eating and listen.
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The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
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Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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I've never been a politics guy in wrestling; I'm just someone who came out and worked.
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In so many ways, forces unleashed in response to the Movement have come to dominate our politics, and technology is allowing the same injustices to be seen anew.
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Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.
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I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.
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We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.
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One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
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Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.
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Politics is a contact sport.
