Quotes About Politics

He's a bar-room socialist, if that's what you mean. Beer and revolution go in, piss come out

Prostitution, perversion, and pornography are intertwined with independence and radical politics in the history of outstanding women. Radclyffe Hall, Colette, Anaïs Nin, Kate Millett, Erica Jong--all of these women used the money they made from writing about sexuality to make it possible for them to live as rebels, dykes, feminists, artists, or whatever deviant and defiant identities they assumed.

I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean.

He resorted to tyranny—the favored fallback of English aristocrats when democracy wasn't going their way.

Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.

What you do to your enemies today, you will do to your friends tomorrow.

The new post-Saddam Iraq had no secular heros.

And more recently, the world had been led to believe that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq.

lunatics will rise to power again and again on tidal waves of aggressive nationalism and intolerance, even in places where it seems utterly incomprehensible.

From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics—the name Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles.

From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics—the name Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding.

Force the enemy to battle on two fronts. When a candidate possessed a piece of negative information about his opponent, he often waited until he had a second piece and went public with both simultaneously. A double-edged attack was always more effective than a single shot, particularly

It's a negative for the country. It implicates dozens of private companies, many of which are made up of honest people. It besmirches the office of the U.S. Senate and is bad for the country's morale. Dishonest politicians hurt all politicians. Americans need to trust their leaders. This would be an ugly investigation

My staff is made up of politicians, Rachel, not scientists. You've met Dr. Marlinson. I think he's terrific, but if I let an astrophysicist loose on my team of left-brain, think-inside-the-box intellectuals, I'll end up with a herd of deer in the headlights.

En política, la percepción lo era todo

true power stemmed not from physical strength but from political leverage.

If the president and the Vice President dies who becomes President Thats easy Arnold Swartzanager

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Goddamn fatherfucking asshole politician moral paraplegic dipshit drag-queen bitch!

Forcing school children to recite a national pledge doesn't sound very American to me," said James. "No," agreed Holmes. "It sounds German. Very German.

Hell is also the memory of starving children in the slums of Armaghast and the smile of politicians sending boys off to die in colonial wars.

She had changed into shorts and a T-shirt that read A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE—AND THE SENATE.

And then there was Gingrich. In 1983, he pushed for the House to expel two members for having affairs with House pages, saying "a free