Quotes About Politics

George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

You cannot criticize Israel in this country (USA) and survive

It's become the incredible shrinking presidency in terms of access, and in my opinion, we are all being shortchanged.

The Yeltsin years considerably lowered the bar [of public expectations] for the country's next leader: Putin's specific policies and actions arguably matter far less than his reassuring symbolic function as "a real man" who can husband the nation's resources and promise a return to greatness. (2007: 227)

The wisest fool in Christendom [James I of England].

Space is not a scientific object removed from ideology or politics. It has always been political and strategic. There is an ideology of space. Because space, which seems homogeneous, which appears as a whole in its objectivity, in its pure form, such as we determine it, is a social product.

Ultimately, these acts of abuse and aggression offer evidence of a new reality emerging in the United States that enshrines a politics of disposability, in which growing numbers of people are considered to be a dispensable drain on the economy and thus an affront to the sensibilities of the rich and powerful.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power-houses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Sources of interest and excitement were not lacking during the season. If politics ran high, as in the years when revolution was preparing, society could gather at the capitol and listen to the classic oratory of Richard Henry Lee, or the fervid speeches of Patrick Henry, dressed in his suit of peach-blossom velvet, and defying King George, to the great alarm of the conservative land-owning gentry.

It may be possible to make the political history of every colony in turn picturesque and exciting;

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.