Quotes About Politics

People give Jon shit and claim he breeds cynicism. He's the opposite of cynical. He really cares. And people who watch his show care about politics. That's why you watch it, and that's why you're not watching a Yogi Bear cartoon.

To survive, Byzantine society and politics folded itself around the state.

He talked about the party line the way Catholics talk about the Immaculate Conception

right-wing politicians

Dina listens to conservative talk radio, belongs to a fundamentalist Christian church, and has a "Guns don't kill people—abortion clinics do" bumper sticker on her car.

Tell Papa I'm a communist, but a bad communist. I use a lipstick made by a Russian noble, Prince Matchabelli. (It sounds Italian though.).

ridiculous if not positively touched, filthy and mean-spirited to be so poor, vain to have airs and graces when so poor, superstitious to hold any religious beliefs, thickheaded to hold any political beliefs, hoity-toity to hold any esthetic beliefs, fustian to pretend to any education, when so poor.

Sólo los políticos se arrogan el derecho a condonar o perdonar en nombre de todos, cosa inconcebible para un crimen de masas o un genocidio.

Cuál es el régimen político más inhumano? El que decreta el bien del hombre.

Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.

Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White's strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other's domain.

Just because you disagreed with the Poll Tax and detested Margaret Thatcher—" "Detest is a little inappropriate," Parlabane said. "Maybe closer to say I spent the entire Eighties wishing I was pissing on her rotting corpse.

It was said that the dumber an idea was, the more likely its proponent to come forward brandishing a flag and a Bible. This was because the normal political currencies of reason and logic could offer no support.

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

Let's look at this rationally...We've got a doctor who may kill him, an Attorney General who wants to declare him bananas, and a Defense Secretary who wants me to start World War III...First, we ruled out starting World War III. We were down to killing the President or having him carted off by the men in white coats...

Three weeks before Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem was ousted and then murdered in a coup that Kennedy had authorized.

There is no magic wand to accomplish change. No one can promise change—he or she can only make it possible. What makes change happen, history and current U.S. politics show, is principled and courageous commitment and integrity.

The 1953 coup was a catastrophe which slammed him [Mosaddegh] to floor, and from which Iran never fully recovered

Elections to the sixteenth majles were held first in the provinces, and they were conducted so dishonestly that even the British were shocked.

He ran Iran, which is a big and complicated country, wearing a pair of pyjamas.

Let me share what I've learned about Thai politics. Keep a distance from those doing a victory dance in the end zone unless you understand their game, how it's scored and how many players each side has. If you can't figure out the rules of the game, you won't know when the game has started and when it's over. Don't put a bet on a game you don't understand.

Celý život jsem d?lal stranického funkcioná?e, a te? abych si hledal práci?

In a political system where nearly every adult may vote but where knowledge, wealth, social position, access to officials, and other resources are unequally distributed, who actually governs? —ROBERT A. DAHL, Who Governs?

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.