Quotes About Politics

and indeed many of those harmed often vote for politicians who will increase their relative impoverishment. Thus the power of hegemony: we may be poor but at least we're patriots!

They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always.

If our government tries to back the banks instead of us, then we elect a different government. We pretend that democracy is real, and that will make it real.

You know a constitution is kind of like a blueprint," Charlotte said thoughtfully. "Getting a real working government out of it is the true act of construction.

I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative party because it is the party of nonpolitics, of resistance to politics. I have seen how many of the evils of life — failure, loneliness, fear, boredom, inability to communicate — are ineradicable by political means, and that attempts so to eradicate them are disastrous.

having a bad reputation or none at all is a serious handicap for a state seeking to remain competitive in the international arena. The unbranded state has a difficult time attracting economic and political attention.

Patel reportedly offered Kashmir to Pakistan in exchange for Hyderabad's accession to New Delhi. Liaquat Ali was inclined to accept, not knowing when the elusive Kashmir would be Pakistan's. Patel and Liaquat Ali were on the same wavelength. The former was not interested in Kashmir and the latter disinterested in Hyderabad.

The problem was that unimaginably stupid had become a job requirement in Washington.

It was the fundamental flaw of democracy: Power found its way into the hands of liars and mobs instead of the cunning and the strong.

The country had a lengthy history of coups and the undeniable fact was that Pakistan performed better under military rule. The

There was nothing politicians liked to do more than Monday morning quarterback decisions that they themselves wouldn't have the guts to make.

Politicians were creatures controlled by passion and it was most effective to quietly absorb that energy without actually giving ground.

Voters are idiots who do what they're told.

The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in your notions to join the procession of progress.

In a sense, the Republicans and Democrats had been professional athletic teams, striving mightily to defeat each other for the money, the spectacle, for victory itself, but for nothing else. They might even exchange members, who would be expected to play as hard for their new team as they had for their old.

the Nazis burned books in public. Liberals suppress opinions that differ from their own through influences they want kept secret. The right wing destroyed books. The left destroys authors. —William Wilde Curringer, Unfinished Memoirs

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

The relationship between fascism and robotics, for instance, it's very clear that it's going to become way more important as time goes by.

I believe he [Saddam Hussein] wants a better relationship with America.

... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

What people can't possibly imagine is what it's like to have two presidents who have a relationship as father and son.

Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only stupid people or fools would think it was bad.

As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.