Quotes About Politics

People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

Certain folks start playing Sindh Card despite having ravaged the life of the common Sindhi.

Ethnic-based politics is being used to exhort people, to serve own ends - this is anathema to concept of nationalism.

When I announced my party, Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) on 25 April 1996, I had lost all fear of dying.

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone.

Janta mass fooling day

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

political life came to be dominated by a pattern of interest-group politics that the era's political scientists came to call "pluralist," a form of democracy marked more by competition among organizations and lobbyists than by a sense of the public interest.

Irrespective of where they lived, most white Americans before the civil rights era were indifferent to Jim Crow. Yet only in, and surrounding, the former Confederacy did the formal political system utilize race to exclude adults from citizenship and full access to civil society. Private terror combined with public law and enforcement to make this political system authentically totalitarian. Competitive party politics did not exist. Electoral contests were enacted inside the one dominant party.

I say in my talks it takes two things to make it happen again, a new Hitler and social conditions like in the thirties. But that's not true. It takes three things: the Hitler, the conditions, and the people to follow the Hitler. And don't you think he'd find them? No, not enough of them. I really think people are better and smarter now, not so much thinking their leaders are God. The television makes a big difference.

Some men Change their party for the sake of their principles and others changetheir principles for the sake of their party.

Mussolini, like all other dictators, is betrayed by his own men.

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.

Herr Kulmbach had been saying the Führer had united the whole German nation. Which is true enough, it's just that the people making up the whole German nation don't get on with each other. But that doesn't make any difference to political unity, I suppose.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

After 1789, politics ceased to be considered as the prudent management of men and circumstances, in order to become the 'realization of ideas'. Political thinking became irredeemably ideological: an imposition of ideas on political life rather than an emergence of policy from living experience.

We in our secular, rationalist world are utterly unprepared for such existential-spiritual spasms. For one thing, we do not study the history of religion in any serious way, even for explanations of religious phenomena. Instead, we look for sociological explanations, or economic explanations, or even political explanations, and we do so precisely because we find it almost impossible to posit spiritual appetites and spiritual passions as independent, primary forces in human history.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.