Quotes About Politics

What a pleasant lot of fellows they are. What a pity they have so little sense about politics. If they lived North the last one of them would be Republicans.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

Right now, they don't, because they think you, the voter, doesn't care.

After a long time, we have had a stable mandate at the top. If the BJP blows this opportunity, it will set India back by a decade.

Applying the 80:20 rule, I would say that 80 per cent of our youth don't even care about politics or government. What they care about are their lives—their jobs, their boyfriends or girlfriends and, well, that's about it. We can call this set of people Self-focused Indifferent Indians.

Corruption is worse than terrorism. Terrorists blow up existing infrastructure such as roads, airports and power plants. Corruption prevents such infrastructure from being created in the first place. Terrorists take innocent lives. Corrupt politicians prevent hospitals from being built, which means that innocent lives

Applying the 80:20 rule, I would say that 80 per cent of our youth don't even care about politics or government. What they care about are their lives—their jobs, their boyfriends or girlfriends and, well, that's about it.

Everyone still tries to cut a deal for themselves while the nation goes to hell. Anyway

Just as people gather on the road to see a fistfight, India gathers at night to watch TV debates.

80 per cent of people who care about politics and national issues fall in the 'taking sides' category.

our politicians are not ethical because we aren't ethical.

These millions of youth across the nation drive my politics. Unfortunately, the kind of politics we have practised and the governments that have resulted have ensured that we suffocate the talents of an entire generation.

Your vote is an important choice for your country, not an expression of love.

Everyone still tries to cut a deal for themselves while the nation goes to hell.

Most people know more about their own elected officials via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbors via conversation, and many know more about the celebrities via tabloids than they know about their own representatives via voting booklets.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular. One's a Republican, one's a Democrat. The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

Washington seems to be more concerned about political mud than radioactive dust.

There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months. That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I am very much alive.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote — a very different thing.

BALLOT BOX. The altar of democracy.