Quotes About Politics

When addressing politics, we must accustom ourselves to think and speak about the actions and interests of specific, named leaders rather than thinking and talking about fuzzy ideas like the national interest, the common good, and the general welfare. Once we think about what helps leaders come to and stay in power, we will also begin to see how to fix politics. Politics, like all of life, is about individuals, each motivated to do what is good for them, not what is good for others.

Taxation, especially in small-coalition settings, redistributes from those outside the coalition (the poor) to those inside the coalition (the rich). Small coalition systems amply demonstrate this principle, for these are places where people are rich precisely because they are in the winning coalition, and others are poor because they are not.

No fool stays in power for years on end when there are so many generals, sons, and wives waiting in the wings to launch a coup.

En política, llegar al poder nunca tiene que ver con hacer lo correcto. Siempre tiene que ver con hacer lo que conviene.

He kept a watchful eye on politics through his reading of numerous newspapers and had aides keep him updated on the results of elections so that he could immediately send congratulatory letters to the winners. Knowing that those who lost might be back again, in that office or some other, he sent them letters too, thanking them for their service to their country.

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

Abraham Lincoln thus displayed little interest in fundamentally changing the pattern of land ownership in the rebellious slave states. But he remained committed to uprooting slavery, and before long he would further broaden and deepen that commitment.

You see, sir, politics have changed since before the war. Before the war the reds were seditious and the blacks and the whites were loyal, but now the reds have won the war and so they're loyal and the blacks and the whites are seditious, and now we've got to stamp out their political opinions, although we've still got to respect them, too, because that's democracy.

I think politics come out of psychology.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Now, for the first time, the President began to look genuinely powerful, even dangerous. This was a classic political coalition: it had worked in Medieval France. It was the long-forgotten bottom of the heap, allied with the formerly feeble top, to scare the hell out of the arrogant and divisive middle.

One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

One of the great beauties of politicians as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

Hey, check this cheap-shot fascist shit," David muttered, just for the record.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

The politicians chose enemies so that they could bind their followers with hate and terror.

My IQ? No. I can't read," she said proudly. "But I'm Rep One, the majority whip in the House. And I'm married to Senator One.

Community and anarchy. Politics pulls things together; technology blows them apart.

politically, economically and socially, the Twenty-Teens are a Depression. The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

Take away America's money, and you've got a country of tribes.

Knock knock!" "Who's there?" the crowd responded. "Unlimited union and corporate campaign contributions." "Unlimited union and corporate campaign contributions who?" "That's the thing," Colbert said. "I don't think I should have to tell you.

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

But then is no one at home any longer?" No, as a matter of fact. Neither state sovereignty nor inviolable borders can take the place of politics any longer.

Man macht sich gar nicht klar genug, dass die gesamte Politik der Gegenwart auf das Problem der Klimaleugnung fokussiert ist.