Quotes About Politics

in fact the Mail's campaign is a chilling lesson in how a superficial manipulation of liberal identity politics can be used to silence a genuinely protesting voice, one that is trying to speak for us all.

He had liked to listen to the exotic (to a Belsey) chatter of business and money and practical politics; to hear that Equality was a myth, and Multiculturalism was a fatuous dream; he thrilled at the suggestion that Art was a gift from God, blessing only a handful of masters, and most Literature merely a veil for poorly reasoned left-wing ideologies.

Most of us have complicated backstories, messy histories, multiple narratives. It was a high-wire strategy, for Obama, this invocation of our collective human messiness. His enemies latched on to its imprecision, emphasizing the exotic, un-American nature of Dream City, this ill-defined place where you could be from Hawaii and Kenya, Kansas and Indonesia all at the same time, where you could jive talk like a street hustler and orate like a senator.

I mean, if you want to help old people, you know, well, vote for a different government, don't send them cans of spaghetti.

In England, we once had an insulting name for such people: trimmers. In the mid-1600s, a trimmer was any politician who attempted to straddle the reviled middle ground between Cavalier and Roundhead, Parliament and the Crown; to call a man a trimmer was to accuse him of being insufficiently committed to an ideology.

If you are truly telling a South African story then it will be political — because you are dealing with people who lead political lives in an environment which is highly politically charged.

The Republicans abandoned the pretext of democracy to fight a war for power long ago.

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.

There's never been an era absent of demagogues.

I don't want to go back into politics - absolutely not.

War is an abstraction.

The word 'change' has been abused so many times.

Most people, I think, have accepted that it's not up to them to control other people's choices, except, it seems, when it comes to Washington, D.C., where everyone has an opinion about people's uteruses.

I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.

As an MP, it is my job to hold the government to account.

A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.

I vote, but I don't feel that I'm achieving much when I do.

In government, one actress is enough.

We need to figure out how to merge political progress with actual progress.

The 'sanskari' people in the country address me as 'Behenji.' Even my parents address me as 'Behenji' and so does Akhilesh Yadav.

I don't believe we need to choose between addressing economic issues and addressing issues of social or racial justice.

No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.