Quotes About Politics

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Politics is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience you have, the worse you get.

A fool and his money are soon elected

Never re-elect anybody

In the Western mind, any undemocratic political system that deprives citizens the ability to choose or remove a leader is by definition evil.

Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.

I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post ' I remained an admirer.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

The personal practice of virtues was always deemed different from the hard action that politics sometimes necessitates.

In Nehruvian 'secularism', superficiality of thought is compensated for by thoroughness in dishonesty.

politicized character of Hindutva-watching leads to unabashed manipulations of the semantics of established terminology.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

There are places in human experience that politics cannot analyze or address, and they hold more possibility for change than we can begin to imagine.

More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty.

I'm stretching my point only a bit when I say that in American life, every vision must begin and end in an economic argument in order to be heard, on urgent matters of human life: labor, education, immigration, refugees, prisons, poverty, health care. Rename

Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.

Given all this, we can see why the foul-mouthed politician has supplanted the polite and reserved one, because in a world where the inner voice is key to the real person, the former is authentic while the latter presents a public image likely at odds with his private behavior.

The prepolitical is no more. There is nothing in this world where human beings can relate to each other that is not a potential arena of political conflict, because all areas of life connect to the overall economic structure of society and thus to society's inequalities and injustices; and Marx should be given much of the credit for laying the theoretical foundations of that.

If we like them, they're freedom fighters . . . If we don't like them, they're terrorists. In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, they're temporarily only guerrillas.