Quotes About Politics

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

If Satan were twins, one the Republican nominee for president, the other the nominee of the Democrats, and God ran as an independent, can there be any doubt who would come in last?

In all practically relevant cases, governments—or more accurately the individuals involved in governmental process—do possess the power to coerce.

It's symmetrical, left and right, because both the Dems and the GOP, Labour and the Tories, want the government to be really, really big, without regard to free choice, and to follow majoritarian opinion really, really closely, without regard to minorities. We Modern True Liberals stand against them both, opposing the tyranny of the majority on either side of the usual spectrum. Hip, hip, hurray for Smith, Wollstonecraft, Thoreau, Bastiat, Mill and their descendants.

Modern liberals do not sit anywhere along the conventional one-dimensional right-left spectrum of governmental coercion.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

like the Irish, if we have no external enemy we fight amongst ourselves, and this has been our custom for more than a century.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.

Chinese were initially excluded from the draft; politicians on the west coast convinced the federal government that the risk of allowing the Chinese to go to war for the country was that they might then demand the right to vote.

México ha transitado del presidencialismo omnipotente a la presidencia incompetente.

Que el PRI creó instituciones pero también pervirtió sus objetivos.

Gracias al PRI la impunidad se volvió una costumbre.

Que es la maquinaria del PRI? Es el gobernador que manda a los maestros a marchar al DF para desquiciarla.

Los idiotas mandan porque otros idiotas los eligen. Los idiotas mandan porque logran erigirse en una especie de diosecillos que siempre tienen la razón, dado que los apoya el pueblo y el pueblo nunca se equivoca.

I always wanted to work at 'Take A Break' magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote 'Garnethill' because I didn't get that job!

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.

Washington, D.C., is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.