Quotes About Politics

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.