Quotes About Politics

The Tea Party is a fitting representation of our era of no-debate, politically correct politics, where each political side has its own media, and opposing views are almost never given a fair hearing. Conservatives listen only to conservatives, and liberals listen only to liberals. People are spared the inconvenience of facts that don't fit their beliefs and the unpleasantness of seriously considering a point of view other than their own.

To finance his failing campaign, he reportedly took about $200,000 from a Republican political strategist known for playing dirty politics, Roger Stone.

At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole.

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

Satire doesn't stand a chance against reality anymore.

Das Spiel ist der Inbegriff demokratischer Lebensart. Es ist die letzt uns verbliebene Seinsform. Der Spieltrieb ersetzt die Religiosität, beherrscht die Börse, die Politik, die Gerichtssäle, die Pressewelt, und er ist es, der uns seit Gottes Tod mental am Leben hält.

Bürgerbeteiligung war ein Name für die Einmischung von Leuten, die keine Ahnung hatten, jede Menge Ärger verursachten und am Ende darüber meckerten, dass sich alles in die Länge zog.

As bonfires burned all over the country [on 10 May 1933], [Frederick] Birchall finished his piece for the New York Times: "There is going up in smoke more than college boy prejudice and enthusiasm," he wrote. "A lot of the old German liberalism—if any was left—was burned tonight" (citing Birchall in New York Times, 11 May 1933). Hitler had been in power exactly one hundred days.

Defiendo la democracia burguesa que nos permite la ilusión de creer que gozamos de libertad, eso es todo.

En mi profesión ser decente suele conducir a que te quedes sin empleo. No sabes cómo está el periodismo en este país. O estás alineado con la derecha o lo estás con la izquierda. No eres más que una correa de transmisión de las consignas de uno o de otro. Pero intentar contar simplemente lo que pasa y opinar honradamente, te lleva a la marginación y al paro.

Si quiere saber qué pienso, se lo resumiré: aborrezco todos los «ismos»: comunismo, socialismo, nacionalismo, fascismo… En definitiva, todo lo que lleva el germen del totalitarismo.

Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign country.

Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.

I come from a government in Indiana where we did get things done.

Indians are first class people suffering from third class governance.

The Gandhis are not ordinary Indians.

You should give no indication that we wish the three-way division of Bosnia.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.