Quotes About Politics

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what's going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.

BREXIT?So mental a political tap dance, that it makes riding a porcupine bareback over a cliff seem the only sane thing to do.

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

You can't separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

oh, what a democracy MY PRIME MINISTER IS CORRUPT

This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens then everybody disagrees.

I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.

The public is blaming the city officials, who in turn have to find someone else to blame. It's the nature of the beast. If the police, the politicians, can pass the buck on down the line, they will.

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.

We are now at risk of having a zombie democracy roaming around a one-party state.

If a politician wins in a dirty way at election, he will sat in position and works with corruption.

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world short of war to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

New Zealand has the cheapest government money can buy.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.

Politics should make a thief, a roué, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...