Quotes About Politics

When Jefferson visited Adams in England in the spring of 1786, the two former revolutionaries were presented at court and George III ostentatiously turned his back on them both. Neither man ever forgot the insult or the friend standing next to him when it happened.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans—we are all federalists.

The emergence of an early form of democratic politics had not yet reached that stage of development. It was still considered unbecoming for a serious statesman to prostitute his integrity by a direct appeal to voters.79

Mr. Henry had without a doubt the greatest power to persuade, [but] Mr. Madison had the great power to convince.

Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure.

It just so happened that they agreed on politics and religion. It was precisely that agreement that has caused most observers to associate them with one another.

History is not coherent; moreover, the politics of coherence tend to drive history in the least tolerable directions.

Congress was just a gray repository that got its OS replaced with each election.

Quite a few people are here to study the European Union. Perhaps there is such a thing as the European Union.

Diplomatic #@@@@@##%%%%#%%%%@@@@@@$$$$$####!!! Immunity?

for politics is in its essence as Adams had said the 'systematic organiztion of hatred': either you were organized or you were not

The politics of the day infuriated him: even when power lay with the politicians he supported, and the opposition appeared to be failing, so much in the political sphere seemed to him vile, vulgar, meretricious, inane—he threatened that he wouldn't be voting at all. The

Politics, the negotiating of power. Eros, the negotiating of power.

her employer Carl Spader had a saying: You're in politics, you're an optimist. You're no longer an optimist, you're no longer in politics. You're no longer an optimist, you're dead.

What a person is in secret, he becomes -- in politics.

A wise administrator never admits to having enemies, and a yet wiser administrator never has enemies.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture that allows us to fall behind what were previously third world nations, because we are now treating science the way we did sex in the 1950s, banning or burying evolution theories and research into promising lifesaving areas such as stem-cell research.

Yo les dije que la madre del gobierno era la Patria. Ellos movieron la cabeza, se rieron y dijeron que no, que el gobierno no tenía madre.

Well, let's elect you Minister of Withholding Information, then

Someone threw a cabbage at William Howard Taft. That didn't bother Taft. He quipped, I see that one of my adversaries has lost his head.

Anyone who's willing to run, I'm not willing to vote for.

Republicans hire exterminators to kill their bugs; Democrats step on them…. Democrats buy most of the books that have been banned somewhere; Republicans form censorship committees and read the books as a group…. Democrats eat the fish they catch; Republicans hang theirs on the wall…. Republicans tend to keep their shades drawn, although there is seldom any reason why they should; Democrats ought to and don't.

To understand that antiracist and antihomophobic politics are informed by a common ethical interest is to create the possibility of coalition across difference.