Quotes About Politics

When I came back to Canada after my graduate studies, I founded the first organization in Canada focused on political under-representation and trying to change that, and to support a whole new generation of public policy leaders from marginalized groups.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

If I wasn't modeling, I'd be studying economics or international politics.

When I was studying in JNU, I realised how students and professors address each other as comrades.

I took a two-year break in college where I was just studying politics - I did political studies and became obsessed with comparative politics.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

An average person like me does not know about stuff like chasing absentee ballots.

People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.

This book-promotion stuff is like a political campaign. You work your butt off, and at the end of the day, you can't tell if it's made a damned bit of difference.

When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.

President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes.

It was very shocking for me to read newspapers that openly criticised the government in South Korea. That is impossible in North Korea and almost impossible in China. I was really impressed, and I became addicted to reading the news and watching the media so I could learn about the world. North Koreans would be stunned if they experienced this.

Americans have a keen sense for political stunts, and the ACLU's push to dismantle DHS is as close as it gets.

Being described as a stupid bureaucrat with no link to representative democracy is difficult to take.

I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.