Quotes About Politics

Abstract ideas like equality and liberty have a spurious transparency, and can be used to derive pleasing theorems in the manner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or John Rawls.

In 2010, Republicans took control of politics in Alabama by advocating for increased transparency and an end to government corruption, but instead of ending it, they have raised the level of corruption to the point that the stench of dishonesty fills the air, decadence drives policy, and bribery is the norm in Montgomery.

The more government transparency, the better.

When you go to our political system, I feel like it's intentionally kept in the last century. In every other facet of life, we turn to social media for instant response time, complete transparency.

Transparency and accountability must be restored in politics.

The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

It's too bad American electoral races aren't as transparent as NASCAR races.

That hasn't been easy, because in order to run a clean and transparent race, I announced in January I was not going to accept any corporate PAC money.

Transport is not a ministry the ambitious should accept: no transport minister has gone on to be prime minister.

We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.

Category of 'enemy' could spread to the whole nation

They were forced to vote for communists, as if communists needed voting for.

At the end, dear patient reader, I am aware that I started this long but necessary introduction in a light tone and ended up embroiled in politics, history, and identity - just like a typical East European intellectual - and I don't apologize for that.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit. All that traffic will bear. Uncle Sam has the money. Let's get it. Of

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

No man on earth who conscientiously opposes either you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities from taking place in the state to which he belongs, can possibly escape with his life. The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

Modern history has become little more than propaganda, a highly developed kind of fiction which entered the world scene with another form of fiction known as "scientific truth." Neither is concerned with substantial reality, but only with what is useful or politically correct at the moment.

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

como si el hecho de tener un ejército de acólitos sin criterio fuese capaz de probar algo. Sólo hay que fijarse en la situación política para ver que las cosas no pueden funcionar de ese modo.