Quotes About Politics

All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.

The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.

Donald Trump's interest in Russia dates back to Soviet times. In fact, there's extraordinary footage of him shaking hands with Mikhail Gorbachev. It comes from 1988, the peak of perestroika and Gorbachev's efforts to charm the American public.

Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically.

The connection between the Soviet Union and Czech people - or Czech politicians - was very big. It was like a model country for us. But it wasn't the best model, so a lot of Czechs don't like to speak about Russia or the Soviet Union.

When I have political discussions with my friends, I piss them off because my personal position is that there's no difference between the parties. It's the Red Sox and the Mets.

By importing into the U.K. the divisive politics of anti-racism from America, with its demented campus dramas and neuroses about 'safe spaces', 'micro-aggressions' and 'cultural appropriation,' they make it almost impossible for people of goodwill of all ethnicities to rub along together.

Growing up, I never ever thought that I would or could or should be involved in politics. I didn't see anyone who looked like me in spaces of power.

I'm undereducated in politics, and I don't like to involve myself in them because they have dark spaces that I do not want to touch.

Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.

It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.

The parents of politics are lack of control and seeking to control. The parents of leadership are influence and trust.

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.

A saying by the brothers Geoff and Vince Graham summarizes the ludicrousness of scale-free political universalism. I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist.

Convincing - and confident - disciplines, say, physics, tend to use little statistical backup, while political science and economics, which have never produced anything of note, are full of elaborate statistics and statistical "evidence" (and you know that once you remove the smoke, the evidence is not evidence).

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it.

The Nation-state: apartheid without political incorrectness.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations.

members of the Athenian assemblies were chosen by lot, a method meant to protect the system from degeneracy. Luckily, this effect has been investigated with modern political systems. In a computer simulation, Alessandro Pluchino and his colleagues showed how adding a certain number of randomly selected politicians to the process can improve the functioning of the parliamentary system.

Also consider that lobbyists—this annoying race of lobbyists—cannot exist in a municipality or small region.