Quotes About Politics

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.