Quotes About Politics

I'm happy to be a card-carrying member of the ANC.

There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel

Comment un régime peut-il considérer une comédienne come son ennemie? Se sentent-ils à ce point vulnérables?p360

I would be a socialist if I thought it would work.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.

Jimmy Carter did not present himself as perfect or pious ... Neither did he compromise his understanding of the Gospel by verbal dodging or double talk. He took a political risk by being so forthright about his faith; in the end though, I believe his candor worked in his favor.' - Billy Graham

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.

Poor whites are still taught to hate—but not to hate those who are keeping them in line. Lyndon Johnson knew this when he quipped, "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." We

Instead of a thoroughgoing democracy, Americans have settled for democratic stagecraft.

The theatrical performance of politicians who profess to speak for an "American People" do nothing to highlight the history of poverty.

To modern conservatives, women are first and foremost breeders.

Poor whites are still taught to hate—but not to hate those who are keeping them in line. Lyndon Johnson knew this when he quipped, "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.

An astute observer wrote in 1924 that American voters preferred to "cherish the unrealities they have absorbed" based upon "the primal instinct to defeat the side they hate or fear.

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.40

Parody was one way Americans safely digested their class politics.

Though Johnson had a proven record as a New Dealer and modern progressive, on the national stage he was still regarded as a regional figure. He refused to go easy on white rule in the South.

Lyndon Johnson knew this when he quipped, "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." We are a country that imagines

even beyond class issues, Jackson's candidacy changed the nature of democratic politics. One political commentator noted that Jackson's reign ushered in the "game of brag.

Northerners, especially those who joined the Free Soil Party (1848) and its successor, the Republican Party (1854), declared that poor whites were proof positive of the debilitating effects of slavery on free labor.

The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Religion is no longer considered the source of serious truth claims that could potentially conflict with public agendas. The private realm has been reduced to an "innocuous 'play area'", says Peter Berger, where religion is acceptable for people who need that kind of crutch- but where it won't upset any important applecarts in the larger world of politics and economics.

If moral knowledge is impossible, then we are left with only political and legal measures to coerce people into compliance.

Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.

liberals have no compelling truth, no 'good news,' to proclaim.