Quotes About Politics

Every theocracy is a denial of democracy. Even better: the smallest hint of theocracy neutralizes the very essence of democracy.

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

Reagan and welfare queens, or Newt Gingrich saying Obama is a "food stamp president.

let's make them work for us. Let's keep them busy in committees defending our full civil rights in return for our full support and let them use it as a wedge issue against the GOP. The last thing leading Republicans want to do, after all, is have an open conversation about LGBT equality.

it wasn't until recently that we saw marriage as a winning issue rather than a losing one.

We should not be comparing Hillary Clinton to our mothers, and we certainly don't owe her filial obedience. She is a politician who now must make major promises if she wants our support in any political race.

Well, I think one thing that we can do, quite simply, is to withhold funding from Planned Parenthood. It's the largest provider of abortion in the United States. They are a billion-dollar industry. As a matter of fact, the head of Planned Parenthood in Illinois said that Planned Parenthood wants to be the LensCrafters of Big Abortion.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives- our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up on, our sexual longings- all fuse to create a politic born out of necessity. Here, we attempt to bridge the contradictions in our experience: We are the colored in a white feminist movement. We are the feminists among the people of our culture. We are often the lesbians among the straight. We do this bridging by naming our selves and by telling our stories in our own words.

Predictably, the national broadcaster—a viper's nest of socialists, tree-huggers and ugly, barren females—had seized on the survey, exhuming one of its bleeding-heart ideologues to moan about funding cuts to education.

For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.

Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Being cast out of society early on made you see civilization for the farce it was, a theater of cruelty you were free to drop out of. Instead of playing along you became a fuckup. It was a political statement and a survival skill.

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

Satan's metaphysical existence can never be separated from the politics of domination, specifically colonialism. It provides vides the dominant culture with the ability to depict those whom they conquer, oppress, and repress as the Other.

Basta con hacerse buenas cuñas y de nombre. El médico del Señor Presidente por aquí... El médico del Señor Presidente por allá... Y eso sí, ya ves; eso sí ya es ser algo...

Para el que no tiene nada, la política es una tentación comprensible, porque es una manera de vivir con bastante facilidad

Jefferson's uncomfortable dictum "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" applies outside the fields of politics as well; it means that we must constantly reevaluate what we do, lest habits and past wisdom blind us to new possibilities.

according to Sorokin. More recent and disturbing examples might include the Nazi interlude in Germany, the communist regimes in Russia and China, and the Islamic revival in Iran.

I thought it was funny that the WGS thought prostitutes, porn stars, and strippers should be funded but conservatives should not---all because of concerns over 'integrity'.

Bill Clinton sexually harassed more women than any president in American history. But that's okay. He supports abortion rights so feminists love him.