Quotes About Politics

The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.

When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

I remember watching these kids getting up in the morning on my dorm floor, putting on a suit and tie and a briefcase, talking about this guy from California named Ronald Reagan and how he was going to be the next president," says Mould. "And I'd be sitting there arguing with those fucks in speech class and poli sci and just hating that, thinking, 'This is not acceptable behavior. This is not what we're supposed to be doing with our late teens.

In the Middle East, no one gets credit for a preemptive cringe.

The secretary quoted the Middle Eastern axiom, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend," to which Netanyahu replied—"acidly," according to Gates—"No, in the Middle East, the enemy of my enemy is my frenemy.

Princess Mary, William's wife, and Princess Anne cooperated in the ouster of their father, James II. It was, as Pocock continues, "a spectacular display of reason of state rising above the restraints of common morality; daughters dethroned their father, even the sanitized version of King Lear was hard to perform for many years, and what William of Orange and John Churchill severally did is still enough to take your breath away if you think about it.

Metonimijska slika banalnog nacionalizma nije zastava kojom se svesno maše u trenucima raspaljenih strasti; to je zastava koja visi nezapaženo na javnoj zgradi.

Politicians could talk about building walls and changing laws to keep people out, but in the end they were just symbols. Neither would stop the tide any more than the rock jetties at the mouth of the port did. Nothing could stop the tide of hope and desire. Bosch

The civilized people in the world, the ones who hide behind culture and art and politics… and even the law, they're the ones to watch out for. They've got that perfect disguise goin' for them, you know? But they're the most vicious. They're the most dangerous people on earth.

where there's government subsidy, there is always corruption.

the most likely place that elected politicians ran afoul of the law was in the area of money.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' Tom Jefferson rescinded those laws as soon as he became president.

Opparizio is a perfect target: rich, arrogant and Republican.

when one reaches the top of a public agency, one becomes a politician, and politicians fall out of favor.

Damn Russians," Siegel muttered. "I hope I live long enough to see that guy impeached.

Politicians could talk about building walls and changing laws to keep people out, but in the end they were just symbols. Neither would stop the tide any more than the rock jetties at the mouth of the port did. Nothing could stop the tide of hope and desire.

the Democrat. What was worse, for her, at least, was that the mayor was a supporter of

But as Alston Chase put it, "when the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

for the last fifteen years we have been under the control of an entirely new complex, far more powerful and far more pervasive. I call it the politico-legal-media complex. The PLM. And