Politics Quotes
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There are important differences that mean we appreciate each other, not tolerate each other. Race creates this idea that there's this massive difference. So when you use race as a means to explore politics, it's a very interesting way of looking at difference, yet similarities.
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Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.
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In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
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And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
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The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.
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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.
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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.
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A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
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Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.
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We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball.
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I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.
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Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
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The alt-right has become about white identity politics. Obviously I'm not a white-identitarian, so the alt-right can do their thing.
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Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.
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Publicity is the engine of politics
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A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.
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Politics is applied biology.
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The Great Migration had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.
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I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.
