Quotes About Politics

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

low expectations are corrosive to a democratic system.

Japanese gaman is not a philosophical concept. The conventional translations fail to convey the passivity and abnegation that the idea contains, the extent to which gaman often seems indistinguishable from a collective lack of self-esteem. Gaman was the force that united the reeling refugees in the early days after the disaster; but it was also what neutered politics, and permitted the Japanese to feel that they had no individual power over and no responsibility for their national plight.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

I brought myself down. I gave them a sword, and they stuck it in. And they twisted it with relish. And, I guess, if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

When the Right proclaims that socialism has failed, and that capitalism is the only alternative, the cultural Left has little to say in reply. For it prefers not to talk about money. Its principal enemy is a mind-set rather than a set of economic arrangements –– a way of thinking which is, supposedly, at the root of both selfishness and sadism.

It is essential to a politician that he should have his firmest friends among the fools, or his climbing days will soon be over.

Before she landed, Ms Clinton publicly downplayed the importance of human rights. At a press conference ahead of leaving, she beamingly implored the Chinese government to keep buying US debt, like a travelling saleswoman hawking a bill of goods.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

Well, I'm not a crook.

You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against Vietnam War)

It would be revealed years later that the language had been lifted almost verbatim from an ad that had appeared in the New York Times and other papers over the names of isolationist congressmen, written and paid for by Nazi agents.

Hell, with money you can even get away with being liberal. But if you're poor and liberal, people just think you're peculiar. Oh, they'll never be sure whether you're a liberal because you're poor or poor because you're a liberal, but they're damn sure it's one or the other.

My life in politics has taught me that the only thing more difficult than fighting against our enemies is taking questions from my friends." Amid knowing chuckles, he promised, "Nonetheless, I shall do my best.

public protest of the direction his party is taking. Convention

Judgeships are the mother's milk of politics, their desirability a rare instance of bipartisan agreement. A deal struck at the tag end of the session promised a dozen new judges for Manhattan and Brooklyn, with two Democrats joining the bench for every Republican.