Politics Quotes
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If I have tried to bring anything to federal politics, it is the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.
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Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.
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The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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It's shocking. There is no fundamental reason. Prices are talked up by politics, stock levels and security concerns.
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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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I fell into politics by accident. It was not something I planned. It just happened because I'd done so much reading and work in the community, I was prepared to do the job when the opportunity came along.
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No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again...
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.
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That's politics. Your friend one day is your enemy the next and vice versa.
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If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.
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I believe that politics in the 21th century shouldn’t be about pressure, force, or intimidation. This kind of politics has no future and no prospect. I believe that only by seeking a compromise and a negotiated agreement can we achieve any success in today’s world.
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A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
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I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.
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Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.
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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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The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.
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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 needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.
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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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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 my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty as a historian if you are one side or the other.
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Politics should come from human stories.
