Quotes About Politics

Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate.

There is sometimes an almost vindictive streak in politics whereby governments follow policies which they know will harm the electorate, but nonetheless, they keep them, sometimes for years. The Corn Laws are a classic example.

Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

The Congress is very vindictive, and they've proved it time and again.

The Left wields blackface as a political cudgel, feigning offense and making excuses according to political convenience. Conservatives need not embrace the same cynical and vindictive tactics. We would prefer to live in a society marked by grace and civility rather than one marked by petty opportunism and cancel culture.

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

We live in a period in which political disagreements are routinely handed over to the courts. Whenever you think that the president is wrong, you might well cry out that he has violated the Constitution - and ask federal judges to rule accordingly.

The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.

President Obama has created the image of an America under President Bush that routinely violated international law.

When you go with individuals who have violated the Constitution in any fashion, you have sold your soul to them.

I think 'astroturfing' goes against the conservative creed because it violates the desire we share to be self-sufficient, and this is understandable, something with which I agree.

Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.

Canada has a stand on human rights in many places, just not when Donald Trump violates them in Latino neighbourhoods.

Almost every day, you see an article in the papers about someone violating a campaign finance law.

In most countries, the political class supervises the defense establishment and restrains its leaders from violating human rights or pursuing dangerous, aggressive policies.

Out-of-control bureaucrats have put politics over common-sense policy with government mandates that force people to choose between earning a paycheck and violating their personal rights and beliefs.

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.

I can say that I have not done any culpable violation of the constitution.

The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.

I am not a politician in prison, I am a political prisoner who uses jail to denounce Spain's human rights violations.

Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.