Quotes About Politics

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

In June, 1957, Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Communist Party boss, was interviewed before a nation-wide American television audience. With calm assurance he stated: ". . . I can prophesy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism. And please do not be afraid of that. Your grandchildren will not understand how their grandparents did not understand the progressive nature of a socialist society.

Party leaders stay in fancy hotels or take vacations, while rank-and-file members are hounded to donate the last dollar

Communists are not liberals.

Communists are not progressives.

The huge seventy-billion a year 'defense' budget

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Don't get me wrong. Sacramento is a lovely place, particularly for those with a fondness for methamphetamines. For the meth-addled, Sacramento had conveniently placed a Greyhound bus station just yards from the statehouse where Austria's finest was sworn in as governor of the great state of California.

Maybe the only way I can explain is to say that the old statesman Edmund Burke was wrong. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to go into politics.

In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.

1980, Leah and Sophie voted for Reagan. My father wouldn't speak to them for six months.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Politicians now think they have to educate the electorate and explain to them what is good for them. Gone are the days when the electorate educated their representatives .

In our existing political conditions, when everybody agrees about something, it is generally untrue.

We have reinforced this limited choice by putting socialism in our left hand and capitalism in our right hand, leaving no other hands. The

Increasingly I perceived myself as being neither on the left nor the right but as believing in a distinct "third position," mistrustful of big government of whatever political hue, which I perceived in the Orwellian sense as being Big Brother, the crusher of freedom.