Quotes About Politics

History is littered with rulers and their rivals brought down by poison.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine and deep and necessary. You don't have time for silly trivial things. You live seriously. You don't go to silly films, even if you want to; you don't read cheap newspapers; you don't listen to trash on the wireless and the telly; you don't waste time talking about nothing. You use your life.

Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism,...

In science, progress is a fact, in ethics and politics it is a superstition.

In a competition for mates a well developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage. The same is true in politics and and other contexts

La cuestión de si sobrevivimos a estos peligros no es un tópico de debate científico, sino un tema de voluntad política.

The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.

He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast.

He tried to smile at President Morgan, but he wanted to say something like: You are without a doubt the most limited politician I have ever encountered. Only in America could a moron like you make it to the top.

Don't ever get involved in politics, Theo. It's a dirty game.

You boys just don't get politics, do you? You're so hung up on who's a Democrat and who's a Republican, and you lose sight of the real goal. Winning! It's much more important to pick the winners, Rusty, regardless of affiliation.

Reed will pull a Trump

Massive layoffs at financial firms. Banks refusing to lend while other banks were closing their doors. Congress chasing its tail. Obama blaming Bush. McCain/Palin blaming the Democrats.

Take any form of growth, from high-end gated communities to low-end shopping centers, fix up a slick brochure filled with half-truths, label it "economic development" with the promise of tax revenue and jobs, and elected officials reached for their rubber stamps.

Naw, we still have the votes statewide. I can't imagine Mississippi ever electing a Republican governor. Your religion won't matter. We just need some new talent.

West Virginia elects its judges, which is an abomination.

Fats knew the playbook and was adept at the dirty tricks: stuffing ballot boxes, raising large sums of unreported money, buying blocks of votes, spreading lies, intimidating voters, harassing poll workers, bribing election officials, and voting dead people with absentee ballots.

The taxpayers are getting screwed by Congress and the Department of Education.

Her current one, adjunct professor of freshman literature, would expire in two weeks, courtesy of budget cuts brought on by a state legislature dominated by those rabid about tax and spending cuts. She had lobbied hard for a new contract

In August, the lords appealed to England for military aid against the regent.

he first had to persuade Elizabeth and many of his own colleagues that an armed intervention

where Scotland and Mary Queen of Scots were concerned