Quotes About Politics

Doesn't ability to do the job come into the equation?' 'Of course not, you fool,' said Jimmy. 'This is politics.

Harry would have laughed if he hadn't been sitting in No.lO Downing Street opposite one of the busiest men in the country.

you should take your consciences with you, and leave your politics in the chamber.' Lord

Jeffrey Archer

And the America Firsters would raise an almighty hue and cry.

politicians should think a lot more carefully before they commit the next generation to war.

I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

Giles entered the Privy Council office on Whitehall so he could avoid the scrum of Fleet Street hacks waiting for him in Downing Street, or at least those who didn't know about the back door en- trance to No.IO.

We need more government, but also a much more competent and honest government. Economic reform and political reform must go hand in hand. Without the one there cannot be the other. The

four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called a corporatocracy.

When libertarians deride the idea of social fairness as just one more nuisance, they unleash greed. The kind of unconstrained greed that is now loose in America is leading not to real liberty but to corporate criminality and deceit; not to democracy but to politics dominated by special interests; and not to prosperity but to income stagnation for much of the population and untold riches at the very top.

A new governing majority will depend on two breakthroughs. The first is that voters, not big money, once again determine election outcomes. We need to break out of the money-politics-media trap. The second is that government be able to translate increased revenues into effective public services and infrastructure. We need, in short, a return to civic virtue, in which Americans recommit to contributing to the common benefit and to cooperating for mutual gain.

Lincoln lied about whether he was negotiating with the South to end the war. . . .

In my three-pronged approach to worrying less about politics, step two is to stop reading political news on social media and to absolutely stop reacting to it.

Has no one suggested we lock Congress in the employee breakroom and not let them out until they can be nice and find a way to work with each other?

Dear friends are throwing away their long-standing, deeply satisfying relationships in the current political climate, tired of seeing opposing posts, each too swept up in the movement to remember that there's someone they love on the other side.

In theory, I'm a Libertarian, but until they find a candidate who didn't graduate from Hollywood Upstairs Medical College, I declare myself politically agnostic/independent and will hold my nose while I vote a split ticket for whomever I hate the least.

Why aren't our leaders advocating for conversation and understanding? DC has ceased to be that shining city on a hill, the very best representation of who we are as a nation.

The House and Senate also passed a joint

What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

Our politicians are more fearful of the politics of terrorism—of the charge that they do not take terrorism seriously—than they are of the crime itself.

The Looming Tower.

It must have been worth while having a mere ordinary plague now and then in London to get rid of both the lawyers and the Parliament.