Quotes About Politics

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.

He put the worst neo-cons available on the case: Elliott Abrams, formerly convicted of conspiracy in the Iran-Contras deal in the '80s and John Bolton, famous first-degree warmonger. Trump then

The real after-effect result was that the whole of the Middle East united against Israel, which no one can support anymore.

Look at his grandiose mockery of Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama, as he sat down with the most straight-faced generals he could find, to take a picture in a so-called «situation room» as they faked the monitoring of the death of Baghdadi somewhere he couldn't be, exactly like his criminal predecessors

Giving them 'junk food for thought,' and rewriting history and law.

There was a rift in American life that was now coursing through American government. It wasn't between Democrats and Republicans. It was between the people who were in it for the mission, and the people who were in it for the money.

Conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit.

People will say with a straight face that having one choice for dear leader is tyranny – but having two is freedom.

Those who need leaders are not qualified to choose them. In a sense, asking people to make political decisions is like asking them to forecast the weather. They're not in a position to do so, and it is silly to expect them to. Democracy entails people who run their businesses well being forced to run their businesses poorly by people who can't run businesses at all.

My main point was that we live in a culture where everyone working for President Trump is brazenly referred to as a White Supremacist or a Nazi, even Jewish advisors like Jared Kushner.

the left is the party of the educational organs, at whose head is the press and universities. This is our 20th-century version of the established church. Here at UR, we sometimes call it the Cathedral.

As the motto went, "Communism is 20th century Americanism.

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

By the end of his second term in 2008, Putin had redefined Russia's role in the world, largely, but not completely, in opposition to the United States and the West.

And then Donald Trump won.

We live in a time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president… a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons…. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush.

A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

There is a fatal internal contradiction in seeing "democracy" as being nothing more than majority rule, rather than a set of restrictions on majority rule:

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.