Quotes About Politics

Because telling you what really happened would be espousing un-American views, and we certainly wouldn't want that.

Siyasî hürriyet dedikleri ferdin devlete ve kanunlara teslimiyetinden ibaret.

Sömürgecili?in mezar kaz?c?s? olarak ça??m?z?n iki büyük ideolojisi el ele vermi?tir: milliyetçilik ve sosyalizm.

animals don't follow unstable pack leaders; only humans promote, follow, and praise instability. Only humans have leaders who can lie and get away with it. Around the world, most of the pack leaders we follow today are not stable. Their followers may not know it, but Mother Nature is far too honest to be fooled by angry, frustrated, jealous, competitive, stubborn, or other negative energy—even if it is masked by a politician's smile. That

Topluma doÄŸrudan zarar veren bir suçun cezas?z kalmas?n?n, gerçekleÅŸmesi olanaks?z bulunan bir suçun ise cezaland?r?lmas?n?n siyasal sak?ncalar? çok önemli ve büyüktür.

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.

All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion

a central task of democratic politics is to provide the institutions which will permit conflicts to take an 'agonistic' form, where the opponents are not enemies but adversaries among whom exists a conflictual consensus.

to think politically requires recognizing the ontological dimension of radical negativity.1 It is because of the existence of a form of negativity that cannot be overcome dialectically that full objectivity can never be reached and that antagonism is an ever present possibility.

Cuando las ideas y los afectos confluyen, las ideas adquieren poder.

African "homosexualities" can never be comfortably slotted within identity politics carved out of Western "gay" and "lesbian" liberation struggles, and display queer and even post-queer characteristics.

From that point on, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and a few other intimates made it their first priority to arrange a deal with Hamilton—letting him have his assumption plan, but hopefully in the form of a compromise that would force him to give up something in return. Chapter

I don't know much about Angola, but I know one thing, they're in a lot of trouble.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

Bobby Kennedy called Jimmy Hoffa "the most powerful man in the country next to the president." Part

Nunz and Sammy were good people. I never cared for Pro himself. He'd kill you for nothing. One time he had a guy kissed for getting more votes than him.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself, but on others, the pretext of his attack. He thus engages the world as a partisan in his quarrel, and dignifies his private hate, by giving it the air of disinterested resentment.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

With the nationalist intelligentsia increasingly in conflict with the liberals, the Communist Party came down in favour of the former, who were given greater latitude than the liberals to publish unorthodox views and faced less severe punishment for transgressions. It was the beginning of a new era in the Soviet Union, the introduction of nationalism into the mainstream – an era described by historian Yitzhak Brudny as 'politics by culture'.