Quotes About Politics

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.

When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.

I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

The Left neither cares about prosperity nor jobs. It cares about equality

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.