Quotes About Politics

why should one expect what had worked on one occasion to work on another? Machiavelli stressed that if the political culture of a community had changed—if it had become corrupt, or virtuous—then strategies that had once failed would now work, and vice versa.

Perché li uomini offendono o per paura o per odio.

Niccolò Machiavelli

E chi crede che ne' personaggi grandi e' benefizii nuovi faccino dimenticare le iniurie vecchie, s'inganna. Errò, adunque, el duca in questa elezione; e fu cagione dell'ultima ruina sua.

hailed the Florentine as the first modern thinker to have exposed the nature of political tyranny.

Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts.

at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned

The language history of the world shows more of the true impacts of past movements and changes of people, beyond the heraldic claims of their largely self-appointed leaders. They reveal a subtle interweave of cultural relations with power politics and economic expediency.

Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.

It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith... the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

During his campaign, Donald J. Trump embraced the cause of fiscal responsibility and accused President Barack Obama of shackling the country with a 'mountain of debt.'

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

Pence is not a man to look a gift horse in the mouth. He's got his eye on 2020.

I'm going to take part in the elections, not just as a candidate but as a mouthpiece for those who can't become candidates.

We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.

I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.

I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.

Fascism is very much a mob movement.

It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games.

What I see around the world are movements around people like Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.