Quotes About Politics

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

Que hoy parezcan importarnos más los líos de faldas de nuestros gobernantes que, digamos, el renacimiento del racismo en Alemania o la libre escogencia en materia de aborto en los EEUU, no es porque tengamos vocación de "tierrúos", sino porque lo somos.

Si queremos modernizar al país, tenemos que comenzar por modernizar nuestra política

Although Spanish politics is among the most corrupt in Europe, political corruption is in the basic DNA of almost any political system, the USA and EU included, and one of the factors that has had the biggest part to play in the crisis of legitimacy. If

Traditional ideologies, whether the egalitarian ideas of the left, or those that serve the values of the conventional right, have lost their way, and the quest for personal success through politics is now tied to the personal accumulation of capital by profiting from the period that positions of power are held.

the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats all took a pro-remain stance, and yet 40 per cent of Labour voters and 60 per cent of Conservative voters went against the leaders of the three parties to vote for Brexit.

So, nationalism (Spanish nationalism as well as Catalan nationalism), both in Catalonia and in Spain, takes the forefront of the political landscape in line with a broader trend sweeping European democracies.

corruption became a systemic feature of Spanish politics, albeit to different degrees depending on the parties, times and areas involved.

Trump did extremely well with voters that some analysts have called 'white trash', the pejorative epithet frequently used to describe poor white people throughout history. It was a cry for survival based on the only thing they had a handle on: being white

Despite the fact that the alt-right was not dominant in the broadest popular movement that formed around Trump, some of its leaders did play a decisive role in the ideology and politics of Trumpism, thanks to their direct influence on Trump himself.

things changed when the debate broadened out to include the general public at large, and not just the political classes.

My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.

Yo no puedo vivir el momento, porque vivo en función de una lucha política, o bueno, actividad política digamos, ¿entendés? Todo lo que yo puedo aguantar acá, que es bastante, … pero que es nada si pensás en la tortura, … que vos no sabés lo que es.

We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

El gobierno de Fidel Castro había vetado a Univision en la isla desde hacía muchos años. Debido a que la cadena tenía su sede principal en Miami, nos percibían como parcializados y extremadamente influidos por los

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

Dans le cercle du pouvoir, il n'y a aucun secret, seulement des types qui font semblant de ne pas savoir.

Easy issues are at the heart of what sociologist James Davison Hunter (119911) forecast as the emerging polarization of American politics. In Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, which is often cited as the impetus for Pat Buchanan's fiery speech at the 1199z Republican National Convention and the dawn of polarized politics, he suggests that the emergence of new social issues, such as abortion, the death penalty, and gay rights, make polarization inevitable.

it is a mark of the kingdom's political maturity that in times of crisis its leading men would generally come together to debate their differences rather than immediately reaching for their swords.

the medium-sized kingdom was squeezed and carved up by its bigger, more powerful neighbours,

Kings raised armies by looking to the support of other powerful men

Æthelwulf decided to marry Charles' daughter, Judith

Dagobert's enemies greatly resented Wilfrid's interference in Frankish politics