Quotes About Politics

Democracy, on this new occasion, finds all Kings conscious that they are but Play-actors.

For the first time in twenty-five years there was no Person of Color on the Board of Estimate, whatever traditional roles they'd had in City government erased. Squeezed by growing immigration, the breakdown of old political networks, a changing economy and soon, waves of drugs, crime, and disease, New York's African Americans would be forced over the next thirty-five years into new cultural and social strategies that would in turn change the world.

the theme that runs powerfully through all of Orwell's writings, from his early work on Burmese Days through the late 1930s and then through the great essays, and into Animal Farm and 1984, is the abuse of power in the modern world by both the left and the right.

One gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England.

The government shutdown, we all know that's a sham. I mean, are they really going to just go to the entire Army and Navy and say, 'You're fired.'

I actually think it's very important that the Navy SEAL community stay out of politics.

Now I've got near the top, I can see the games that people play. I thought everyone wanted to fight the best, and earn title shots, but it's not like that.

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

We have a really rich and diverse heritage in my family - but I sometimes felt it was a bit of a chain round my neck in the Labour party if truth be told.

The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.

Negative politics have always been around.

I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.

I hate negative ads in general.

I don't think people in Hawaii like negative ads, whether it's done by an independent group or whether it's done by the campaign itself.

I've never, in my whole 30 years in office, run a negative ad.

I've got these high negatives because the Koch brothers have spent a year attacking me.

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

A no deal Brexit would be a complete failure by the government to negotiate for Britain.

Labour can no longer impose a future on the country, instead it must negotiate one.