Quotes About Politics

It certainly is an odd circumstance if you live your life without regard for being elected and then get elected—and quite an opportunity for your enemies.

His son-in-law and daughter hoped—they were even confident—that they could speak to DJT's better self, or at least balance Republican needs with progressive rationality, compassion, and good works.

There was now a fair amount of back-of-the-classroom giggling about who had called Trump what. For Steve Mnuchin and Reince Priebus, he was an "idiot." For Gary Cohn, he was "dumb as shit." For H. R. McMaster he was a "dope." The list went on.

This was the job Bannon a week later.

Bob and Rebekah Mercer, who had set themselves up as almost professional fools.

Scaramucci also took on Steve Bannon: "I'm not Steve Bannon. I'm not trying to suck my own cock." (In fact, Bannon learned about the piece when fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment about Scaramucci's accusation that he sucked his own cock.)

the more doubts gathered around Flynn, the more certain the president became that Flynn was his all-important ally.

the three men working hardest to maneuver the president—Bannon, Kushner, and Priebus.

There are few modern political variables more disruptive than a dedicated prosecutor

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself." —Sir Henry Wotton

Knavery and flattery are blood relations." —Abraham Lincoln

there is nothing less heroic than the mutual embrace of capitalism and democracy.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

We need to cut off the King´s Head: in political theory that has still to be done.

There is no Israel for me.

J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?

What's amazing about Bayrou, what makes him irreplaceable," Tanneur enthused, "is that he's an utter moron.

Es un poco la posdemocracia, si quieres, pero hoy todo el mundo hace eso, es lo único que funciona, la democracia como sistema está muerta, es demasiado lenta, demasiado pesada.

Olisin voinut liittyä Front national -puolueeseen, mutta mitä ideaa siinä on että syö hapankaalia kusipäiden kanssa? Sitäpaitsi oikeistonaisia ei ole olemassakaan, ja nekin antavat vain laskuvarjojääkäreille.

la distorsión cada vez más evidente entre las intenciones de los hombres políticos y las consecuencias reales de sus actos entrañaba algo completamente malsano e incluso maléfico

no se puede decir que el comunismo haya desarrollado mucho el sentimentalismo en las relaciones humanas: en conjunto, lo que predomina en los ex comunistas es la brutalidad;

Il faut être un crétin pour se définir comme un nietzschéen de gauche.

Curieusement, les pays occidentaux étaient extrêmement fiers de ce système électif qui n'était pourtant guère plus que le partage du pouvoir entre deux gangs rivaux, ils allaient même parfois jusqu'à déclencher des guerres afin de l'imposer

Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away