Quotes About Politics

Parliament may as well close down if a few men between them are to be allowed to own the entire Press of the country, and stifle every voice that does not shout their bidding.

Arendt's point is rather that throughout modern German history Jews were pawns, more or less and almost necessarily willing pawns, in the game of power politics. They were used by the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the liberals, and discarded by each of those opposed factions when their usefulness, which was financial, was either used up or no longer deemed socially desirable.

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the "basket of deplorables." —Hillary Clinton, September 9, 2016

GOVERNMENT BIG ENOUGH TO SUPPLY EVERYTHING YOU NEED IS BIG ENOUGH TO TAKE EVERYTHING YOU

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

I did not mean to sodomize Dick Cheney.

It seemed that to reach the pinnacle a man must climb simultaneously many ladders. He might have been already halfway up on the professional ladder while just starting out on the political one. He might have been ascending one and descending the other.

Too far, Mrs. Jones! You go too far! You go too far confusing the cause of labor with that of socialism

I could write for days about the disappointment of politics.

The current criminal administration is riffling the pockets of this dying patient, thieves stealing all they can while gutting environmental regulations and, for good measure, opting out of the Paris Accord, giving the finger to a world just beginning to understand the danger.

the solution to America's race problem—a problem analyzed and discussed for decades by armies of sociologists, politicians and activists—is internal, not external. It is inward, not outward; personal, not social; individual, not political.

In big companies, there's always going to be more politics and less scope for individual decisions. But seeing what startups are really like will at least show other organizations what to aim for. The time may soon be coming when instead of startups trying to seem more corporate, corporations will try to seem more like startups. That would be a good thing.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

Despite his infirmities, Strom Thurmond showed up to work every day and did not miss a Senate vote in his final year, though no one is sure if a shouted 'Bingo!' counted as a yea or a nay.

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.

Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.

I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

Donald Trump would not lose a single voter over any report indicating that his tax plan might not work.

The [Donald] Trump transition team is already functioning as the worst transition team we have ever seen. And the good news is the slower they do their work, the better off we are.

How our government works... it doesn't.

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!