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Quotes About Politics

they claimed they were seeking political asylum (from the country known as "the world's biggest democracy").
~ Paul Theroux
The murderous, self-elected, megalomaniacal head of state with the morals of a fruit fly, with his decades in power, along with his vain, flitting shopaholic wife, his hangers-on, and his goon squad, is an obscene feature of African life that is not likely to disappear.
~ Paul Theroux
The murderous, self-elected, megalomaniacal head of state with the morals of a fruit fly is an obscene feature of African life that is not likely to disappear.
~ Paul Theroux
But it got worse and worse." He sighed. "Politics!" "Ours or yours?" "Both! Our government is bad, yours—well, you know the talk. 'Mexicans are criminals and rapists.' And really, I was working hard, and all the Mexicans I knew were good workers.
~ Paul Theroux
America seemed insecure, violent, and wayward; and President Obama appeared detached and indecisive.
~ Paul Theroux
the presumptuousness of Hillary Clinton, who was so certain of winning that she campaigned halfheartedly
~ Paul Theroux
He played on the distrust of the Clintons and subtly disparaged the Republican Party.
~ Paul Theroux
But tormented souls have this incredible ability to recognize and approach one another, thus compounding their grief. Why hadn't I noticed this in him? Why did I see only the superficial way he talked about politics or the pedantic way he tasted the wine?
~ Paulo Coelho
The problem I've had all my dating life is that the guys who drive me crazy sexually never seem to care much about being a part of the righteous forward motion of all peoples of the world toward peace and freedom. This is part of my parents' revolutionary curse. I have to consider politics even in the midst of passion.
~ Pearl Cleage
Who rules well is always hated.
~ Pearl S. Buck
the doctrine of isolationism and
~ Pearl S. Buck
When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!
~ Ice T
The anger on the left - I've never seen anything like it. I mean, they're right now opposing everything. Democrats in the Senate are filibustering absolutely everything.
~ Ted Cruz
There's a lot of anger on our side. We've been lied about, we have been lied to, we've been mischaracterized, Hillary calling people deplorables and this kind of thing.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
~ Hannah Arendt
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
The definition of a Racist is anybody winning an argument with a liberal.
~ Bill Whittle
Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't
~ Bill Whittle
Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.
~ George Soros
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.
~ John Sayles
If we're going to have arguments, let's have arguments — but let's make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.
~ Barack Obama
George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
~ Gary Coleman