Quotes About Politics

Decision making becomes more political—less about authority, and more about influence.

As you move to higher levels, however, it becomes increasingly important to get good political counsel and personal advice. Political counselors help you understand the politics of the organization, an understanding that is especially important when you plan to implement change.

It is not that the contemporary world of music lacks an audiopolitics, but rather that it is coded as the politics of the market: who owns and controls the sound files. The politics of intellectual property and piracy have eclipsed the politics of musical form or content.

Politics. The word is taken from the Ancient Greek. "Poly" means "many." And ticks are tiny, bloodsucking insects. Monday

In extraordinary circumstances and against the odds, Churchill became Prime Minister instead of Halifax, and that one decision changed the course of history.

A prime minister can chose his friends and his Cabinet but not his relatives. Part Chairman Lord Williams

Party conferences can be such fun. They resemble a nest of cuckoos. Sit back and enjoy watching everyone trying to push the others out. The

His answer foreshadowed the rise of a new conservative populism built around the politics of patriotism and social identity rather than economic advantage and class division. "Because, you see, I love my country. And I think my country is in danger.

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There was always plenty of collateral damage; politics left a trail of pain and tortured families in its wake.

I do not believe that Nixon did order the break-in," Bob Haldeman observed many years later. "Nor that he even knew about it. But I do believe that he caused it.

La política requiere sacrificio. El sacrificio de los demás, por supuesto.

I just didn't hang around the White House any more after Nixon ... Watergate changed me a little bit along that line." - Billy Graham

Looking back, I see now that I accepted as normal the toxic gridlock and learned helplessness our political system teaches.

That is because Donald Trump is the literal face of white innocence without consciousness, white privilege without apology. Each

Obama had always to field demands from some blacks to be blacker, and the wish of many whites to whitewash the story of American race and politics.

President Lyndon Baines Johnson once argued, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

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Physics, yes? Physics. This is physics. It's also politics. The two are sometimes painfully difficult to keep apart. Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen".

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It is in your interest', said the dancer Pylades to Augustus, 'that the people should devote their spare time to us entertainers - if they do so, they will not bother about subversive politics.

Smith was as conservative as it got in American politics, but he figured that part of conservatism meant conserving things.

Discussing, learning and teaching, studying and communicating, participating in actions—these are some of the forms of activism that constitute the central axis of the production of subjectivity. A plural ontology of politics is set in action through the encounter and composition of militant subjectivities.

The problem with the politicians of both parties in the US is that neither of them have a real agenda except to feather their own nests. They both have their hands deep in corporate pockets. All the rest is sleight of hand and distraction to keep the public occupied with trivia, divided against each other, and thinking their vote matters.