Quotes About Politics

tertulia inaceptable para la Academia Sueca, siendo que en las últimas décadas para ser galardonado en literatura no importa tanto que el premiado sea talentoso o un idiota, sino que lo gravitante es que sea de izquierda o que al menos sea funcional a ella.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.

Loving a woman is always political.

Articles in the newspapers and talks by leading Maoists encouraged the Red Guards and congratulated them on their vandalism.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

What if an ordinary person cannot make a difference without talking about politics, without letting political concerns have their due, without feeling alarm, without figuring out some way to trust the power of words -- without, that is, becoming an extraordinary person?

He recalled the rifles without sights, the cross-purposes of wars, and the dark Malays who knew only the most simple, the most fundamental language of all- life, love and liberty -and who now would find themselves within the coils of power and politics.

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

Education is political.

in a democracy the great leaders are allowed to lead only because they are elected.

Washington? A city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.