Quotes About Politics

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

an orange potato trolls the White House. If you didn't wake up screaming, you didn't wake up...

I would not like him to be a pawn in someone else's political gamesmanship.

Americans and their guns," he muttered.

IF you can fly above the CLOUD of politics, the storm is not for you.

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know? some of these jokes just write themselves.

Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

Donald Trump'd rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us.

Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in exactly the same place.

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.

Kindness' covers all of my political beliefs.

Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.