Politics Quotes
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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.
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Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
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My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.
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Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
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It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
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If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.
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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.
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You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.
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When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
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Politics is as much a regular business as the grocery or the dry-goods or the drug business. You've got to be trained up to it or you're sure to fail.
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Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
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I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.
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You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.
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Men ain’t in politics for nothin’. They want to get somethin’ out of it.
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Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.
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You would be naive to suggest that politics isn't complicated or isn't a game, but you don't create change through cynicism.
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Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.
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Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
