Quotes About Politics

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.

I'm not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.

Leaders of organizations with leftist ideologies should not be allowed to enter Panjab University.

I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.

If you organize your life around some political party's list of things you should believe, or an individual that you think is going to come and save you, you are disconnecting yourself from truth. And there is a price to pay.

When it became clear that I was going to remain #NeverTrump, conservatives I had known and worked with for more than two decades organized boycotts of my show.

We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits.

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

Another word for politics in my mind is organization. You have to be organized; you have to get out there. It's not just magic.

Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.

You come into Congress, and in the orientation, pretty quickly, you're separated out by party. Which makes no sense, if you want to get a body that works as a body, that learns to be able to work as a body.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

Very simply, I was the original conservative.

After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

The things that I was building on originally for the defense of our democracies had been completely inverted to really, in my view, attack our democracies.

The BJP brand of Hindutva was originally rooted in middle-class disenchantment with secular hypocrisies; Modi's version is defined simply by hard-edged hatred.

I grew up in Orlando, Florida, and I joined the debate team right around the time of the 2000 election.

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?

Michael Moore got booed at the Oscars, so how liberal is Hollywood? Honestly, it's not liberal enough for me!

I shook Obama's hand and I said, 'I want to be your friend.' My hand is still outstretched. I am not Obama's enemy, but it's difficult not see imperialism in Washington. Those who don't see it don't want to see it, like the ostrich.