Politics Quotes
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I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.
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Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.
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The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.
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There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.
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The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.
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[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.
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The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.
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I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.
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I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.
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I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly "illisible". To take the risk of suggesting that the human form might take another form.
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The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.
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If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'
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What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?
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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
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Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.
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The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on. But we know what's really involved, dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that.
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I actually don't want to be an actor for the rest of my life. I'd like to go on to be a lawyer or a doctor, and I definitely would like to get into politics.
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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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The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.
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I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
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In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.
