Quotes About Politics

The High Middle Ages resounded with conflicts between the popes and the emperors and other temporal rulers.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

Between the collapse of the utopian ideology of God's kingship on the one hand and the refusal to deify the king on the other, a semiautonomous sphere of human politics was born. God is not the king, and the king will be accepted only so long as he renounces all claims to be a god.

At the heart of politics lies an existential urge for physical security, and the people proved willing and even eager to relinquish whatever unsupervised freedom and entitlements they enjoyed in the state of divine anarchy, and to surrender to a political sovereign who will freely tax and conscript them so long as he can also safeguard them from their pitiless enemies.

I am not arguing that everything is political, which would, by making politics ubiquitous, render it a meaningless category. I am also not claiming that anything is either inherently political or apolitical. I am interested here, rather, in how the ways in which politics is defined enable certain phenomena and disallow others.

My argument in this book is that embracing the idea of the subject-in-process, far from depoliticizing feminism, breathes new political life into it. It opens up spaces for political contestation and allows for the flourishing of new forms of politics to sit alongside its more conventional ones. Feminism does not need the stable unitary subject to guarantee its politics. It needs a deeper understanding of the political nature of subjectivity and of the dynamism of politics.

can't uganda survive without a parliament. that's the institution I have grown to hate so badly

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. (On President Ronald Reagan)

real politics is such a process of growth through which you gain the bargaining power...

Covid rumor was spreaded by speaking about it 24 hours by media journalists, through newspapers, mobile ring tones , news websites front page and many other channels so that people can't think anything but only corona by listening about this media hype created virus round the hours and then doctors started looting patients and its booty commission went to every level of politics. Still they are spreading rumors about it and fools wearing masks accept it.

Senior politicians who advise people to maintain social distancing for Covid protection wear masks only in front of media camera, otherwise not. When they hold rally and meetings, all social distancing rules are forgotten. Media continue to spread mutation rumor to hide their earlier lies.

These stupids can't see that political parties are holding rallies, functions without any social distancing and politicos are not wearing masks and yet these fools think that there is corona virus and wear masks.

There is an understandable aversion to risk, and a reluctance to plan too far ahead: the modern electorate wants instant gratification and simplistic, populist solutions.

But perhaps his outstanding contribution to Australian politics was that, after a lifetime of switching sides, he put in place the basic two-party structure we have today: Labor versus anti-Labor. The anti-Labor parties have had many names, but always the same policy: to keep Labor out of office.

Desmascara os mecanismos de poder econômico e político que se escondem atrás de expressões que estão na boca de todos como "sociedade do conhecimento ou da informação". Melhor dito, o capitalismo informacional-cognitivo constitui a nova base da acumulação.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.