Politics Quotes
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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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The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.
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The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
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You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.
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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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Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.
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People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical needs of human beings, maybe. They are providing food. But not good and healthy food.
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It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy.
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So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.
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Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'
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Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.
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Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.
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I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.
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How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.
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Rock should never be in bed with politics.
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I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.
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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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It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
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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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I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.
