Quotes About Politics

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?

I think there's no question Comey abused power.

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

You can't keep changing the rules based upon who holds political power.

Passions change, politics are immutable.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where the action is in Congress.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing and built a substantial power base.

The big question now is who will take power in Afghanistan once the Taliban is defeated. I was thinking, how about Al Gore? He's not doing anything, he needs a job, and he's already got the beard.

It looks like President Bush will be handing over power to the Iraqis by June 30th. That's amazing and not only that, but it looks like he'll be handing over power to the Democrats by November 2nd.

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.

The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.