Politics Quotes
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Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
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It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy.
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I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
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Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
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Sometimes, I read that I'm this leftwing comic who just goes on about politics the whole time. Other times, I read that it's just surreal nonsense about crisps. It's both of those.
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I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.
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Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.
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Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
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Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
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Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.
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I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.
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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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It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say - which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves.
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If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that's what they're supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that's commensurate with that.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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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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In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
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My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
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Good economics is good politics.
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In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.
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You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.
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The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.
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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.
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I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.
