Quotes About Politics

The towering genius is not apolitical.

It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.

Senator Jordan's only response had been made upon a single mimeographed sheet holding a single sentence. Distributed to all press agencies, it said: "How long will you let this man use you and trick you?" Senator

The conception of people acting against their own best interests should not startle us. We see it occasionally in sleep-walking and in politics, every day.

Republicans don't want to 'save the world'; they want to save the country from those who would 'save the world.

Der Triumph der Taktik über die Strategie hat unser Land gelähmt.

Politicians should be changed regularly, like diapers, and for the same reason.

Will the United States ever have a black woman president?

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

Currently, without examples of civility, Americans tend to treat opposing views as the positions of enemies.

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

He thought of how the world organises its affairs so that civilisation every day commits crimes for which any individual would be imprisoned for life. And how people accept this either by ignoring it and calling it current affairs or politics or wars

People come to Washington believing it's the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine.

You could pick your friends, but not your Presidents.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments.

The growth of the mass media of communication and their use in politics have brought politics closer to the people than ever before and have made politics a form of entertainment in which the spectators feel themselves involved. Thus it has become, more than ever before, an arena into which private emotions and personal problems can be readily projected. Mass communications have made it possible to keep the mass man in an almost constant state of political mobilisation.

What came in the end was only a small war and a quick victory; when the farmers and the gentlemen finally did coalesce in politics, they produced only the genial reforms of Progressivism; and the man on the white horse turned out to be just a graduate of the Harvard boxing squad, equipped with an immense bag of platitudes, and quite willing to play the democratic game.

Tell ya the man's got a private line t'Moscow," he said. "A few men like that in office and we're in for it, take my word.

No one in either system could be unaware that State Security was out there, but for the ordinary citizen, uninterested in politics, lucky enough not to belong to one of the groups stigmatized as enemies, the attitude was as likely to be prudent respect, even approval, rather than a permanent state of fear.

Trees stand at the heart of ecology, and they must come to stand at the heart of human politics.

Yesterday's political criminals are on today's postage stamps!

Forest has succumbed to chemically sustained silviculture. Four billion years of evolution, and that's where the matter will end. Politically, practically, emotionally, intellectually: Humans are all that count, the final word. You cannot shut down human hunger. You cannot even slow it. Just holding steady costs more than the race can afford.