Quotes About Politics

War is the statesman's game

Toward whatsoever we regard as perfect, undoubtedly, it is no less our duty than it is our nature to press forward; this is the generous enthusiasm which accomplishes not indeed the consummation after which it aspires, but one which approaches it in a degree far nearer than if the whole powers had not been developed by a delusion. It is in politics rather than in religion that faith is meritorious.

la Armada Invencible; ya saben, cañonazo va y ola viene y todo a tomar por saco, con aquel pulso fatal entre nuestro buen Rey Don Felipe Segundo y esa arpía pelirroja que se llamó Isabel de Inglaterra, amparo de protestantes, hideputas y piratas, más conocida por la Reina Virgen, aunque maldito si puede uno imaginarse virgen de qué

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

It should be a matter of honour on the Left to write at least as well, without redundancy or clutter, as its adversaries.

George Orwell has written that "political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."1

That was clear when certain directors and members of the F.B.I. and C.I.A. were presenting (later found to be found false) information to impeach Trump.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.

Republicans have succeeded with a social agenda that gets people to vote against their own interests while the Democrats are so elitist that they can't tap into the anger that's real.

For more than a half-century, anti-intellectualism has had a pretty good run in presidential politics. In fact, Republicans would never have gotten where they are without it.

John Kenneth Galbraith, "on the shrewd notion that people who are insecure, hungry, and without hope are not ardent defenders of liberal institutions or discriminating in the political systems they embrace.

paper-pushers can't figure me out. all they understand is bullshit and politics, which amounts to the same thing.

the modern age the definition of a "racist" is a conservative who is winning an argument.

Não apenas se reduziu a quantidade de países e de pessoas praticando a democracia, como ocorreram muitos casos em que, pelo próprio voto, pela própria liberdade de expressão e organização, se escolhe o cativeiro.

And as I write this, Romans 13:1 recently made the rounds on the American political scene to shield the administration from criticism for separating illegal immigrants from their children at the border—which is just one of many reasons why politicians should not be allowed near a Bible without adult supervision.

Violence: the brutish solution of the ignorant who know they could never get enough people to vote for them.

If you want to understand how a government works, the laws tell you.

Political policies determine how the human race confronts this crisis. War doesn't have that ability. War has only one outcome. War is stupid, Ralph. It is the desecration of the human spirit, martyring yourself for someone else's dream. It is for people who do not believe in themselves.

Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them. They become politicians.

Who wants to wind up living in a theocracy?

People will look at you, what you're doing, rewriting the regiment rule book, and they'll want to do the same for themselves. That's when you'll start to run into resistance. That's where the politics begins. And that's the dirtiest fight there is.

I've never met a good politician.

Politicians are its creatures, too. They are the easiest of all humans to corrupt.