Quotes About Politics

Also reporters kept asking Ferraro if a woman could be "tough enough" to "push the button," meaning declare a war, though they didn't ask male candidates if they could be wise enough not to.

As I write this, there are mainstream educators trying to discredit efforts to diversify the academic canon by giving them the dreaded label "politically correct"—now known familiarly on campus as "P.C." (which, as Robin Morgan has pointed out, might well stand for "Plain Courtesy")—as if centuries of exclusion had not been the height (or depth) of politics.

Campaign season is the only time of public debate about what we want for the future. It can change consciousness even more than who gets elected. In short, campaigns may be the closest thing we have to democracy itself.

In pre-Watergate, pre-sexual revolution times, such stories just weren't written.

Zacz??am dostrzega?, ?e dla niektórych religia stanowi po prostu formÄ™ polityki, której nie wolno krytykowa?.

the idea of equality was so contagious that the right wing would soon rate feminism as a danger right up there with secular humanism and godless Communism. The

It had taken three murders - Martin Luther King, Jr., and two Kennedys - to leave the country with this choice between Nixon and Hubert Humphrey.

We could double our chances by working for one of these candidates, not against the other. For now, I've figured out how to answer reporters when they ask if I'm supporting Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. I just say yes.

that conflict follows politics as night follows day

politics are a part of daily life.

Saying politics is dirty is just a way of keeping us from changing the politics of our own lives.

Older women especially saw Hillary Clinton as their last and best chance to see a woman in the White House. And not just any woman:7 as one said, "This isn't just about biology. We don't want a Margaret Thatcher, who cut off milk for schoolchildren.

Both white and black women were more likely than their male counterparts to support Hillary Clinton—and in my observation, also more likely to believe that she couldn't win. Male and female black voters were more likely than white voters to support Obama and also to believe he couldn't win. Each group was made pessimistic by the depth of the bias they had experienced.

They also saw her expertise. For instance, George Soros, the Hungarian-born financier and philanthropist, introduced her in his Manhattan living room by saying, "Hillary knows more about Eastern Europe than any other American." After she was elected to the U.S. Senate on her own merits, she worked constructively, even with old enemies there, and was solidly reelected to a second term.

Older women especially saw Hillary Clinton as their last and best chance to see a woman in the White House. And not just any woman:7 as one said, "This isn't just about biology. We don't want a Margaret Thatcher, who cut off milk for schoolchildren." They

Older women especially saw Hillary Clinton as their last and best chance to see a woman in the White House. And not just any woman:7 as one said, "This isn't just about biology. We don't want a Margaret Thatcher, who cut off milk for schoolchildren." They wanted Hillary Clinton because she supported the majority interests of women. On

began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn't criticize.

The New York Times op-ed page changed it to "Women Are Never Front-Runners.

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

Patriotism ruins history.

Credo nella pedagogia insieme alla democrazia, perché non c'è l'una senza l'altra.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.