Quotes About Politics

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

we have red triangles as politicals, so we let the

A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children.

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

The state is not a cause but an articulation of secularization.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Today Henry would be running a banana republic with serious border issues and a dodgy nuclear-weapons program.

Irish politics are tribal, incestuous, tangled and furtive, incomprehensible even to many of the people involved.

Toronto's already ass-deep in cockroaches and conservatives; what's one more lower life-form?

a kind of emptiness existed in the center of my bagel; really it was just the hole that's in the middle of all bagels; 'i need to go read my blog to find out what my politics are

Politics and war were just different names for power, and the price of power was predictably high and could be precisely measured-in dollards,yen,euros,rubles,riyals, and blood.

If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestine by the Zionist Government should have the same right, very simple.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan were self-proclaimed atheists.

Now hardly anything seemed to matter except politics—the latest series of atrocities, which family had converted, who had offered money to bribe the Church, and, of course, the fateful night which was burned in their collective memory and which caused even those who had previously expressed a total indifference to politics to sit up and take stock.

Since becoming chief minister four years ago, Baba Dhobi had sought to consolidate his cult standing by using state funds to build lavish monuments and statues to the leaders of the Dalit movement, himself included.

As a friend often said, India is a gymkhana club, where the people have the votes, but the politicians and the bureaucrats have the membership.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

You know, Winifred, you begin to make me wonder if all women should have the right to vote.

Even today, the politics of religion does not allow the subcontinent to become civilized and its people to become truly educated.

What is it Aristotle said? 'Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.' Yes. Populism is becoming popular in America—an old doctrine, though its adherents invariably think it is a new one, age after age.

What is it that Aristotle said: 'Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.' We have approached that day.