Quotes About Politics

When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson)

The news was prioritized in a way I could not understand. For instance, there was nothing on new mathematical observations or still-undiscovered polygons, but quite a bit about politics, which on this planet was essentially all about war and money. Indeed, war and money seemed to be so popular on the news, it should more accurately have been titled The War and Money Show.

The American president is a motherfucker.

The news could be more accurately described as the war and money show.

It might sound dramatic to say the planet could be heading for a breakdown. But we do know beyond doubt that in all kinds of ways – technologically, environmentally, politically – the world is changing. And fast. So we need, more than ever, to know how to edit the world, so it can never break us down.

Parklands are often positioned as apolitical, as "common" or public land that somehow eludes examination amidst the grit of property markets and land-use battles, but it is critical to understand parks as a central feature of colonial land logics, as aggressively regulating and disciplining land and its occupations.

Hell, we elected a demagogue last election in this country. People made some comparisons to Hitler.

Though politicians are regarded as scum, government as a machine is held to be almost infallible.

American presidential politics is entirely based on the myth that a perfect, omniscient, virtuous and incorruptible saviour will emerge from the New Hampshire primary every four years, and proceed to lead his people to the promised land.

When the thing standing between you and your heart's desire is another person with their own wants and needs, the answer is never as simple as just laying down the law. We all understand this when someone else tries to tell us what we can and can't do, but conveniently forget it when it's our turn to give orders. This blind spot is common to people on all parts of the political spectrum, which is one reason why I don't like arguing politics much.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy's—that's usually the way this business works.

How Giuliani is not Trump's running mate no one will ever understand. Theirs is the most passionate love story since Beavis and Butthead.

America has been trending stupid for a long time. Now the stupid wants out of its cage, and Trump is urging it on.

Sixty million people were announcing that they preferred one reality to another. Inherent in this decision was the revolutionary idea that you can choose your own set of facts. Blue-state

After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind's eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.

You can tell a lot about a country by how boring its media is. If you turn on the TV and immediately feel like going to sleep, it generally means the political class feels secure.

One political party may be preferable to another. A news channel, though, can't be a vehicle for a political party and be anything but a bad thing.

America is ceasing to be a nation, and turning into a giant television show. And this Republican race is our first and most brutal casting call.

Win or lose, Trump's campaign threatens to unleash the Great American Stupid S

as is curiously also the case with high-level politicians, top on-air personalities and print editorialists are never geniuses. They almost never say or write surprising things. They don't dazzle or amaze.

The party worked the cattle in their pen into such a dither that now they won't rest until they get the giant wall that real-life, as-seen-on-TV billionaire Donald Trump promises will save them from all those measles-infected rapists pouring over the border. Not

it's so pathetically easy to set big groups of voters off angrily chasing their own tails in response to media-manufactured nonsense

Get your liver ready: the second GOP debate is upon us S