Quotes About Politics

One of the more profound lessons that I've learnt in politics is that everything is related to everything else. Nothing exists in a vacuum.

Republicans have cultivated, into a fine art, the ability to divide people up by race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation. That's what they do. That is the essence of their politics.

tired of status quo politics and wanted real change in the world in which they were living.

Not one word about income inequality, climate change, Citizens United or student debt. That's why the Rs are so out of touch.

The very existence of billionaires is not just about who has the money and who doesn't. It is also a manifestation of a corrupt political system, in which immense power over the lives of the great mass of Americans is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people who—through campaign finance arrangements that can only be described as legalized bribery—buy control of our elections and the policies that extend from them.

The rise to power of a right-wing lunatic in a free election in Germany.

Four years later, in 2020, we won the popular vote against a huge field of candidates in the first three Democratic primary states—Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada. The result: a panicked political establishment came together behind Joe Biden, the one candidate they thought could beat us. The other candidates were asked to drop out.

in a sense, both of them faced the same opponent: an outside super-PAC funded by wealthy donors who wanted to beat progressives standing with the working class of this country.

It turned out that Republicans loved veterans very much, except when it came to funding their needs.

To me, a very basic political principle is that you cannot take on the establishment when you take their money.

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?

Das Volk hat das Vertrauen der Regierung verscherzt.Wäre es da nicht doch einfacher,die Regierung löste das Volk auf und wählte ein anderes?

In sum, victory and defeat both come at a price for ordinary people. The best thing for us is if there's not too much politicking.

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

Elected officials are manufactured personalities and celebrities.

We are only permitted to take emotional stands on issues that do not affect corporate power.

Meanwhile Adolf Hitler, the only right-wing nationalist with a mass following, was publicly promising full employment and prosperity.

No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action

These men - ..., the politicians, ... - use their position, their knowledge, and their power of disseminating misinformation to arouse and stimulate the latent instinct for bloodshed. When they have succeeded, they say they are reluctantly forced to war by the pressure of public opinion.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Such battles as he carried on now were in a wider sphere, their sole object the complete political annihilation of the dumb and dastardly Democrats.

This is why people don't like Washington, D.C., you just said something that I did not say and attributed it to me. This is your trick of the trade, to confuse and incite based on fear.

Hester thought about the political upheaval gripping the country and said, "These are serious times." "Yes, they are, which is why it's important to seek out humor and beauty whenever possible. If we don't, we'll all be buried beneath the weight of the misery.