Quotes About Politics

My point is, the Senate is filled not just with lawyers, but with old white men.

Virtually everyone in the world believes that climate change is real and is caused by human beings, except Republicans in the United States.

I'm not going to write stuff like, "Mitch McConnell and I may disagree, but when we're off the clock, we're the best of friends—sometimes we go to dinner and Mitch will laugh so hard that milk shoots out of his nose." No, I'm not going to be writing clichés like that. Instead

Former Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank once said, "I only voted once for someone who believes in 100 percent of what I believe. And that's when I voted for myself—the first time.

Campaign contributions don't buy votes. What they buy is access.

Anyway, here's the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz. I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

Take it from me–elections matter.

I am Al Gore; I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.

In political practice, we must be both 'the arrow and the bull's eye', because the old worldview is also still present within us.

When one abdicates universality, one obtains universal horror.

One who criticises capitalism while approving of immigration, of which the working class is its first victim, would do better to remain silent. One who criticises immigration while remaining silent regarding capitalism should do the same.

Afirmar que um sistema político pode suscitar entusiasmo apresentando-se abertamente como portador de uma "doutrina de ódio" implica olhar os partidários como loucos, doentes criminosos ou perversos. Será necessário, então, explicar como é que um povo inteiro ficou louco. Se o é por natureza, que ideia fazemos da natureza humana? Se o é por acidente, como é que nisso se tornou - ou cessou de o ser?

AP. : Peut-on proclamer que nous restons neutres ? De Gaule : Il ne faut rien proclamer du tout. Et d'abord c'est faux ! Nous aidons les Marocains en leur fournissant des armes. Nous aidons les Algériens en mettant à leur disposition notre aérodrome de Colomb-Béchar. Nous les aidons à s'entre-tuer. Pourtant, il faut bien faire comme si nous étions neutres. [Le 23 octobre 1963]

L'Europe intégrée, ça ne pouvait pas convenir à la France, ni aux Français…. Sauf à quelques malades comme Jean Monnet, qui sont avant tout soucieux de servir les États-Unis. (Tome 2, Fayard, édition 1997) - p214

For some reason, leatherbound copies of the goings-on in Congress lined the shelves of our living room, and I pored over them when I was 12. I had never read anything so funny," Alda said. "From then on, I knew I wanted to do comedy.

Para una dictadura moderna, toda organización que sea independiente ya es política.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.