Politics Quotes
-
It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day.
-
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
-
A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
-
There are two rules in politics. They say never ever be pictured with a drink in your hand, and never swear.
-
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
-
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
-
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.
-
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
-
Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics.
-
Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.
-
A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
-
In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse.
-
Having the democrats watch your money is like having Michael Vick watch your dog for the weekend
-
The optimistic side of me hopes that the majority of people look at what's going on in politics today and in the world, in general, and just say, "We've had enough."
-
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
-
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.
-
The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.
-
The sobering anwer is yes - the white community is so entitled because ... it is the advanced race ... it is more important ... to affirm and live by civilized standards ... than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.
-
Politics is all about relationships, people. A lot of it's emotional. It's not rocket science.
-
It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.
-
I wanted young women to know that I was very lucky that I worked for people who literally let me be me. If I had ever been anyone other than me, I would have come off as a fake, a phony, a fraud, and never would have gotten where I ultimately ended up. You can be yourself and be in politics, and they should know that. That was kind of why I wanted to do it - because I didn't see any freaks in politics like me.
-
Putin wants nothing less than to return Russia to the center of global politics by challenging the primacy that the United States has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.
-
Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups in the inner wheels of our industrial organization. It must come from inner compulsions and desires.
-
If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.
