Quotes About Politics

Benazir was Prime Minister; she had taken the oath of office in a bright green shalwar with white dupatta, the colours of the Pakistan flag, and made the men around her look like pygmies.

Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab unity but in the way it captured the high ground of all politics: the language and fundamental categories it is conducted in.

In politics, a conflict only exists in public; otherwise it is merely a potential for conflict, which we can never be certain exists or will materialize.

Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by muzzling scientific findings found to be in contradiction with political and economic agenda.

War, like politics, was men's work, and women were supposed to be among its victims, not its perpetrators. Women's loyalty was assumed, regarded as a prime attribute of femininity itself

A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.

A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday," Bathhouse John pointed out. "A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.

The best thing about the Congress is that it is the last place where you can have face-to-face interviews and interaction with the newsmakers themselves.

Donald Trump intimidated the press and bullied the press.

For too long, Gov. Cuomo has led with fear, intimidation, and bullying.

Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.

There is a national climate here. We're seeing a rise in hate speech, in intolerance, in racism, in division.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.

And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.

I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.

I created jobs. Russ Feingold, during that same approximate 30 years, what did he do? He built government. He built it larger and more intrusive.

What is invaluable about Angela Davis' work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.

The invasion of Iraq was, in ways that have since become hard to dispute, a terrible mistake.

European democracy, for me, is the best form of government invented by mankind.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.