Quotes About Politics

Que a única maneira de afastar os processos políticos e as purgas é reintroduzir a singularidade do indivíduo que se rebela contra a ordem planificada.

No novo mundo, portanto, a política é centrífuga. Não se trata mais de unir eleitores em torno do denominador comum, mas, ao contrário, de inflamar as paixões do maior número possível de grupelhos para, em seguida, adicioná-los – mesmo à revelia deles. As

Les aspirations accumulées de tout un pays, immergé depuis des décennies dans la sénescente torpeur communiste, convergeaient ici. Et au centre il n'y avait pas la culture, comme le croyaient les intellectuels convaincus d'hériter du sceptre et qui n'avaient rien hérité du tout. Au centre, il y avait la télévision.

Mas quem recolheu mais votos foi Estaline. Estaline, está a entender? Foi aí que eu compreendi que a Rússia nunca se tornaria um país como os outros. Não que houvesse alguma verdadeira dúvida.

Le pouvoir est comme le soleil et la mort, il ne peut se regarder en face. Surtout en Russie.

Quando se neutraliza um atentado antes que ele se produza, ninguém se apercebe disso, ao passo que reagir com força, denunciar os culpados, isso sim, produz capital político.

Se você é jovem, inteligente e se interessa por política, pense bem antes de estudar ciências políticas na universidade. Você deveria se interessar, em vez disso, em estudar matemática ou física. Num segundo momento você poderá entrar na política e terá conhecimentos mais úteis, com aplicações infinitas [...] Pode-se sempre ler livros de história mais tarde, mas não é possível aprender matemática na hora que se quer.

Il ne faut jamais sous-estimer la nature sentimentale des rapports politiques.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.

It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own.

For those of Hamiltonian inclination, liberty tended to be positively defined, freedom to—the right to pursue personal entrepreneurship, and expect government support. Jefferson, who had after all drafted the Declaration of Independence, tended to emphasize a negatively defined freedom from—the right not to be interfered with, not to be tyrannized. These differences of opinion have divided American politics right down to the present day.

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution. And it was designed to eat the Constitution. To progress past the Constitution.

This is the disease. This is the disease in America. It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And it is in both parties.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.

The only difference between Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. is that at least Vegas has the decency to admit the town is full of hookers and crooks.

Virtually everything we told you about the healthcare bill now has proven to be true, and nearly everything they told you was a lie.

Partisan politicians] seek to incite political support or raise money by pitting us against each other on issues . . . because they know that by igniting heated arguments, the issues are less likely to be solved and their careers are more likely to be secure. Every time you vote "against" someone rather than "for" someone the two-party system wins and America loses.

The infighting and the purposeful division promoted by our political parties is a simple ploy to keep us from uniting.