Quotes About Politics

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.

It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.

Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's what they look for in objective reporters.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.