Quotes About Politics

Politics is not about justice. It's about the settling of personal vendettas, under a thin veneer of civilization. All politics is personal.

Cara paling mudah untuk mendekati rakyat adalah mendekati Sukarno - Sakaguchi

Amerika hanya suka padamu bila engkau berada pada pihak yang dipilihnya. Kalau engkau tidak sepenuhnya sejalan dengan dia, engkau secara otomatis dimasukan dalam blok Uni Sovyet.

Dalam masalah pribadi maupun politik, aku sering menimbulkan teka-teki pada orang lain. Biasanya para presiden duduk bersandar dan menunggu untuk dilayani. Sukarno tidak. Aku baru merasa bahagia kalau orang yang berada disekitarku merasa bahagia.

Hanya Bung Karno yang dapat menguasai massa. Tidak ada orang lain yang dapat melakukannya.

Seorang komunis menginginkan dunia yang terdiri dari satu bangsa. Mereka menghapuskan nasionalisme untuk kepentingan internasionalisme.

Komunisme dapat diberantas dengan pikiran sehat, bukan dengan sikap histeris.

Kita tidak membenci orang Belanda. Kita hanya membenci pemerintah kolonial. Tetapi bila ada seseorang yang lapar atau menderita sakit, kita sendiri akan membagi makanan atau darah kita kepadanya untuk mengurangi penderitaannya. Politik adalah politik, tapi perikemanusiaan adalah perikemanusiaan.

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

I am demonized because I don't see party affiliation or nationality when I look at a person, I see that person's heart. If someone looks, dresses, acts, talks and votes like a Republican, then why do they deserve support just because he/she calls him/herself a Democrat?

When I was growing up, it was 'communists.' Now it's 'terrorists.' So you always have to have somebody that's our enemy to be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, and guns, and bullets, and everything (2005, Voices of a People's History of the US)

Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that. —Britney Spears, on the invasion of Iraq

I pledge a return to the glory days of old-fashioned absolute dictatorship: Politics and pop culture are going to merge back into one big ugly Frankenstein baby. American

When Gloria Arroyo ran for reelection in the Philippines in 2004, the Economist published an article titled "Democracy as Showbiz," and whinged that running for president in the Philippines is so expensive that celebrity name recognition has become crucial. Oh, horrors: Arroyo ran against a movie star and a televangelist. America

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I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

My opponent called me a cream puff. ... Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.

In early-twenty-first-century America, when political debate is often confined to shouting on cable television or posting on Twitter, it's even more valuable to revisit an era when arguments over politics and culture were palpable, urged, even revolutionary.

Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.