Quotes About Politics

The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.

Biden is making America the world's ATM again.

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

As is often the case in politics, the truth was less important than public perception.

Two years later, in 1512, Solis, deftly manipulating the levers of influence, rehabilitated himself, and King Ferdinand

depended to make decisions concerning affairs of state.

O mundo que Marco Polo explorou está perdido para a História de muitas maneiras, mas alguns aspectos importantes do retrato que ele traça são surpreendentemente contemporâneos. Como mercador, compreendeu que o comércio era a essência das relações internacionais e que ele se sobrepunha aos sistemas políticos e às crenças religiosas, que são autolimitadores

For four anxious years, from 1554 to 1558, he was the jure uxoris king of England

Politics may one day be found to be so vulgar as to be described, along with all party and daily journalism, under the heading: 'Prostitution of the Intel lect'.

Indeed, "All great periods of culture have been periods of political decline." The energy required for politics on a large scale, or in economy, or in universal commerce, or in parliamentarism, or in military interest, usually reduces the level of culture of a people.

We should] treat as impeachable those offenses, and only those, that a reasonable man might anticipate would be thought abusive and wrong, without references to partisan politics or differences of opinion on policy.

When we think about "high Crimes and Misdemeanors," we must ask: Will we survive this presidency, and, if we do, what kind of nation will we have become?

Impeachment is not just another form of political combat; it's an emergency measure meant to save the democratic foundation on which all other politics unfold.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

In any economic or political crisis, one thing is certain. Many learned experts will prescribe many different remedies

A political party now exists primarily as an apparatus for selecting candidates and getting them elected to office.

As Joe recalled, Dingell didn't know who the freshman Congressman was. "You like clean air up there?" Dingell asked when he learned the young man was from Boston. Joe nodded in the affirmative. "Well, I'm from Detroit and I don't, and there's no chance you'll ever get on that committee." That

Wallace seemed to be speaking of Shelton's clear objective when the candidate said, "The Klan wants to grow until it makes every office seeker in Alabama doubt that he can be elected without the Klan's seal of approval.

A leader is known as much by the quality of his enemies as the quantity of his friends, and Ted Kennedy's greatest enemy was the president of the United States. Nixon feared that the senator from Massachusetts might one day rise from the dark waters of Chappaquiddick to challenge him and his party. Nixon

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

The National Rifle Association are the gun nuts of the world.

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