Quotes About Politics

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

Neo-liberal market fundamentalism was always a political doctrine serving certain interests. It was never supported by economic theory. Nor, it should now be clear, is it supported by historical experience.

The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly, and especially in the US, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote". Rather than correcting the market failures, the political system was reinforcing them.

The only thing anyone inherits by right of birth in the Soviet Union is congenital idiocy.

Whether V. be the eternal feminine of Goethe or the great Goddess of Graves, symptom or cause of the chaos of the twentieth century, blighter or ghastly redeemer of the waste land, Western Civilization, as Pynchon sees it, is caught in a dying fall. Randomly dispersed natural energies, creeping inanimateness, rampant colonialism and racism, expiring romanticism, perverted sexuality, degenerate politics, and holocaustic wars have turned the Western world into a waste land.

What happened in 1603?" Grant asked, his mind still on Tyrrel. "We had the Scots tied to our tails for good." "Better than having them at our throats every five minutes.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

I'm never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?

There was a line from The Lady in the Lake I could have quoted him: "Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men." When Jake recognized that he had failed to live up to his responsibility to uphold that law, he had resigned. He had had the honor and the courage to step away. Not every man had that in him; I thought probably very few men did.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

There was no such thing as mixed-race in the South, or in America for that matter. The whole country had called a mixed-race man our "first black president.

it can only be distressing to an honest man to witness the ranks of his distinguished profession being infiltrated by Reds who seek to pervert what must be taken as history's purpose, which is the reinforcement of our government and political institutions.

equality ends with the Creation, and that all attempts to enshrine this equality in our government and enforce it through legislation must be treated as abominations to G-d [sic] that verge on Sovietism"…

Tammy said, "Or else it's like an addiction. Politics is, or how you feel about what you are is, or how you feel about identity and what it makes you do. Same appetite. It all depends on what you like: uppers or downers.

The foreign leaders with whom Nixon got along best, like President Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan of Pakistan, were almost always authoritarian strongmen.

There will always be a boogie man. Politicians need one.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won't be you; you can't afford them.

Es sabido que en política internacional las imposiciones deben sustentarse por las armas. Dicho de otro modo: cada nación tiene la importancia de su ejército. El que mea más lejos es el más poderoso y puede imponer su voluntad a los demás.

El traje de luces que cubre sus ideas políticas permite ver con claridad hacia qué lado carga. Lo cual no le impide distinguir el bien del mal, o reconocer con claridad cuando un edificio tiene los cimientos repletos de fantasmas.

O tal vez, se me ocurrió en algún momento, Colombia nunca había dejado de ser una colonia, y el tiempo y la política simplemente cambiaban un colonizador por otro. Pues la colonia, igual que la belleza, está en el ojo de quien la admira.

Elaine se quejaba de esto en las noches, en su cama matrimonial, y luego se quejaba de que en Colombia todos los ciudadanos fueran políticos pero ningún político quisiera hacer nada por los

El lenguaje de la política -en contra de sus propias intenciones- suele ser impreciso y ambiguo, de ahí el riesgo de su transformación, por pereza mental o por motivos utilitarios, en etiquetas o fórmulas estereotipadas, en eslóganes publicitarios o simples estribillos que no dicen nada.

Pensando en España, Orwell le dijo en cierta ocasión a Koestler: "la historia se paró en 1936".