Quotes About Politics

Some people have made the argument, well, Donald Trump is bad, but Hillary Clinton may be worse, or there's really no difference. That's insane. That's completely insane.

Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.

I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.

Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.