Quotes About Politics

I had been right in the first place. Getting involved with politicians is complete stupidity.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.

When politicians and civil servants hear the word culture they feel for their blue pencils.

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. But having come so close

We can be world-beaters, and run whole companies, and then claim to be traumatized by a hand on our knee when helplessness is politically useful.

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

For a key perception of the book is that most human beings are not ideologues; intellectual coherence is not a notable feature of their politics. People's political views may be rigid but they are not necessarily rigorous. They tend to derive from, or to be reflections of, some mixture of sentiment, custom, and moral aspiration.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind," as he puts it in the essay on Partisan Review, "we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

Fraser's widely influential version of a distinction between the politics of recognition and the politics of redistribution, first articulated in Justice Interruptus (1997), very carefully notes that these are analytical distinctions, and not a real world separation between intertwined political histories.

Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?

The first time you went out, you became mixed up with a group of radical political terrorists." "That could have happened to anyone!

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

I'm in the camp that says that if you're to the right of South Dakota on anything, you should use that as a moment to recalibrate your core values.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

Greatness will come by looking forward - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - and by changing our nation's future.