Quotes About Politics

I suppose it is the lot of soldiers and Marines to be objectified according to the politics of the day and the mood of the American people about their war.

It's not something that defines me. I'm not a half-Indian politician or a doctor politician or a gay politician for that matter... it is part of my character, I suppose.

I suppose I've always put the career, the job and politics, all of that first.

I suppose, being in politics, it wasn't a job - it was almost a calling. It dominated my life, so I do think that probably a lot of people around me have paid quite a big price for that.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

As president, I'm not supposed to play games or show my hand, because there's a lot going on behind the scenes that you don't see or hear and don't need to know.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Once I got into politics, I saw the real fight, where big money controls everything, and where politicians care more about campaign contributions than the people they're supposed to represent.

We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

With the rise of identity politics, the expression of naked prejudice against members of a supposedly privileged group has become mainstream.

Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

I feel sorry that whenever anybody raises his voice in the AAP in Punjab's interest, it is suppressed.

The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.

Trump is the worst. I mean, he is like a shape shifter. You can't nail him down. It is like the last gasp, the last bastion of old white males, of white supremacy and hegemony.

A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of.

If you don't create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressive politics is dead. That is a fact of history. The right has always emerged supreme when destabilisation and insecurity prevail.

When I see the Trump supporters on television explaining themselves, I don't get a feeling of supreme confidence. They've created a revolution, and now maybe they're a little scared by it.