Quotes About Politics

1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States . . .

Perhaps most strikingly of all, it was clear in 1988 that those inside the process had congealed into a permanent political class, the defining characteristic of which was its readiness to abandon those not inside the process.

Kara Dukakis, one of the candidate's daughters, had at that moment emerged from the 737. "You'd have a beer with him?

There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.

The words "USA Today" were heard quite a bit during the first few months of the new, faster format, as were "New Coke" and "Michael Dukakis".

women who liquidated their unborn children, the very magma of resentment on which Ronald Reagan's appeal had seemed always to float.

This is in fact the kind of story we expect to hear about our elected officials. We not only expect them to use other nations as changeable scrims in the theater of domestic politics but encourage them to do so.

Everybody says I'm politically naive, and I am," she says after a while. It is something she says frequently to people she does not know. "So are the people running politics, or we wouldn't be in wars, would we.

It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)

There was no denying that whores surrounded him. Not just the women on the flat screen, but the political whores who'd attended his meeting. He replayed his own conciliatory words and wondered whether he was one as well

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.

I want to work with Peter Robinson as first minister in a positive, constructive way and leave the elections to the electorate.

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.

People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

Im done being silent, the left cannot win.

Conservatives are all about self reliance until something goes wrong. Then they're all about finding someone else to blame.

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political career of my husband

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action