Quotes About Politics

What does Jarett really think about the Crusaders? Does he control them? If he doesn't like what they're doing, he should make some effort to stop them. He shouldn't want them to make their insanity part of his political image. On the other hand, one way to make people afraid of you is to have a crazy side--a side of yourself or your organization that's dangerous and unpredictable--willing to do any damned thing.

Politicians, on the other hand, are short-term thinkers, opportunists, sometimes with consciences, but opportunists nevertheless.

These were stupid affairs—wastes of life and treasure. They were fought, ostensibly, to defend against vicious foreign enemies. All too often, they were actually fought because inadequate leaders did not know what else to do.

most of us voted for Vice President Edward Jay Smith. None of us wanted an empty man like Smith in the White House, but even a man without an idea in his head is better than a man who means to lash us all back to his particular God the way Jesus lashed the money changers out of the temple.

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

Yet Andrew Steele Jarret was able to scare, divide, and bully people, first into electing him President, then into letting him fix the country for them. He didn't get to do everything he wanted to do. He was capable of much greater fascism. So were his most avid followers.

seduced by Jarret's talk of making America great again. He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries.

Secretaries of Astronautics don't have to know much about science. They have to know about politics.

He said politicians turned his stomach.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

A jesieni? 2016, (.......), w Ukrainie dobiega? ko?ca trzeci rok wojny z Rosj?, we Francji kremlowscy kandydaci przymierzali si? do fotela prezydenckiego (jak mawia? Borys Bierezowski o nowych zasadach polityki zagranicznej Federacji Rosyjskiej ,,po co kupowa? fabryk?, skoro mo?na kupi? dyrektora?").......

Political motivations, though rare, occasionally did raise their heads, more so since 2016, and it brought out the worst in people. Black was white, and patriotism was treachery. Some had the gift of coloring the truth just enough to make it look like a lie, and to carefully prune a lie until it passed the smell test and became accepted truth, not just to the intended audience, but also eventually to the liar himself.

Democracy functions in Protestant nations. It barely functions in Catholic nations. It doesn't function at all in Orthodox nations.

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I am a woman committed to a politics of transliteration, the methodology of a mind stunned at the suddenly possible shifts of meaning - for which like amnesiacs in a ward on fire, we must find words or burn.

Testosterone Autism: The person beset by this ailment....develops an interest in various tools and machinery, and he's drawn to the Second World War and the biographies of famous people, mainly politicians and villains.

I fretted myself about the mistakes of government, like other people; but finding myself every day grow more angry, and the government growing no better, I left it to mend itself.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another.

The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics.

Rarely does a man wear a suit to a diner in the middle of a workday without politics on his mind.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.