Quotes About Politics

el clero continuó gobernando las mentalidades y dirigiendo exitosamente a la nación a la ruina y al atraso.

hoy los comediantes y bufones encabezan a varias naciones. Cuando un bufón representa a una nación y la comanda, algo está podrido en esa sociedad.

La 4T y el populismo llegaron a la Semarnat. Estamos en serios problemas.

los cheques llegarán a nombre de Morena, del presidente— podrían llegar a 23 millones de mexicanos, de los cuales casi todos votarán en 2021, con lo cual Morena podría garantizarse de nuevo una mayoría.

Es también evidente afirmar que, si las condiciones político-sociales son autoritarias o, cuando menos no ciertamente democráticas, las decisiones judiciales padecerán y con ellas, muy probablemente, quienes las emiten.

Qué acaso no es un interés directo de la Casa Blanca defender los negocios de las empresas americanas en lugar de favorecer a nuestros competidores de cualquier parte del mundo?

Izquierda era la de Mitterrand, la de Felipe González, a diferencia de la supuesta izquierda de Chávez o la de Castro, quien impuso la felicidad con la fuerza de las bayonetas…

Trees and branches are what nation states cling to; waves are what markets do.

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.

Bobby announced that he'd never again participate in a Candidates tournament, because the FIDE system made it impossible for any but a Soviet player to win.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.

All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.

Perényi had found in the garden everything from sexual politics and class struggle to culinary fashion and, particularly relevant to me, ecological insight. The garden in other words, was better approached as an arena than a refuge. --Intro by Michael Pollan

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we expect our children to live better than we do.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.

Politics is gut commercials are gut.

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.