Quotes About Politics

I am not going to participate in professional politics again.

At a moment when people are losing faith in their ability to participate in politics and make themselves heard, the media can play a critical role in reversing that sense of alienation.

I decided that instead of making jokes about politics, I need to take part in it, and therefore, I can't make jokes and participate.

If the opposition wants power they must participate in democratic elections and win the vote of the people.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people.

I think you can see a clear link between certain kinds of Christian nationalism and support for Trump. Then, I also think that Trump is benefiting from the weakening of religious participation. He's winning evangelicals who aren't in church.

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

There's some jerks. There's some big egos. There are a few that think they're one of the Founding Fathers... in both parties.

It would have been disastrous for Zambia if we had gone multi-party because these parties would have been used by those opposed to Zambia's participation in the freedom struggle.

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.

If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

Lincoln and Clinton had a lot in common in the way they were elected: In both cases, they were dark horses. In both cases, they were from small states. In both cases, they were not the favorite for their parties' nomination.

We don't want our MPs to become greedy like those of other parties.

I think all of the parties still have some way to go to better utilise IT in campaigns.

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.