Quotes About Politics

Israelis are a mix of North African, Levantine, and Eastern European, which inflames the politics but does amazing things for the women.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

There are truckloads of broccoli at this very minute descending on Washington. My family is divided. For the broccoli vote out there: Barbara loves broccoli. She has tried to make me eat it. She eats it all the time herself. So she can go out and meet the caravan of broccoli that's coming in.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions depending on what I think will help our election most.

Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

I care what 51 percent of the people think about me.

It was amazing I won. I was running against peace and prosperity and incumbency.

A year ago my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good ol' days.

I consider myself a woman who is working to understand how spoken and unspoken messages have shaped my experiences and political perspectives.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.

About 50 percent of politics is definitely obnoxious in as much as it poisons the utterly incompetent mind of the masses. We are on our guard against contagious diseases of the body, but we are exasperatingly careless when it comes to the even more dangerous collective diseases of the mind.

In accordance with the prevailing tendency of consciousness to seek the source of all ills in the outside world, the cry goes up for political and social changes which, it is supposed, would automatically solve the much deeper problem of split personality. Hence it is that whenever this demand is fulfilled, political and social conditions arise which bring the same ills back again in altered form.

It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

Trump-voting

a bunch of granola eaters who hate George Bush.

Ethanol uses more energy to produce than it generates, and it deprives the Third World of corn to eat, but the politicians and the agribusiness firms benefit. And

conspiracies don't exist in government for long. But a couple of things are timeless, especially in Washington: greed and corruption. Especially