Quotes About Politics

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Congress has many more powdered milk experts than intelligence experts. Of the 535 members serving in the 116th Congress, only eighteen ever worked in an intelligence agency, but dozens of representatives came from dairy districts in New York, Wisconsin, Vermont, Texas, and elsewhere. That's better than it used to be. In 2009, only two members of Congress had prior intelligence careers.114 The same year, the Congressional Dairy Farmers Caucus was founded with more than fifty members.115

It is naive to think that sport is above politics, that any kind of level playing field exists, or that sport allows the world to put its problems on hold.

She said she remembered when Republicans compared President Roosevelt to Hitler and to Stalin and to Mussolini. She said she used to see people wearing I HATE ELEANOR buttons walk past her on the sidewalk and she wanted to spit, she wanted to kill them.

at different times in the past, both the American Left and the American Right have stood for group-transcending values. Neither does today.

But in recent years, whether because of growing strength or growing frustration with the lack of progress, the Left has upped the ante. A shift in tone, rhetoric, and logic has moved identity politics away from inclusion—which had always been the Left's watchword—toward exclusion and division.

Humans aren't just a little tribal. We're very tribal, and it distorts the way we think and feel. But not all group identities are equally potent. Some have a much stronger grip than others and are more politically galvanizing. Very few people have ever given their lives for the American Podiatry Association. One of the most powerful forms of group identity—and the focal point of political tribalism and violence all over the world today—is ethnicity.

If we want to get our foreign policy right - if we don't want to be perpetually caught off guard, fighting unwinnable wars, and stuck having to choose between third- and fourth-best options - the United States has to come to grips with political tribalism abroad. And if we want to save our nation, we need to come to grips with its growing power at home.

America's elites miscalled the 2016 election in part because they don't understand—even look down on—what matters most to America's nonelites.

A lot of [Republicans] know what [Trump] did was wrong. And they didn't have the courage to say it.

In fact, Joe Biden repeatedly reached out with words of kindness. That's a quality in politics that is vastly underestimated.

Because if it moved faster it would be fascism, Jackson, and we've come damned close to that and would rather not.

Okay, we know that you are all at the age when your peers start to ask certain questions, and in this town, everybody is going to make certain assumptions about us politically, but we need you to know something.

Yeah," Joey muttered. "For one thing, she voted Republican. I can't stand that shit.

I am further left, I am more progressive, than anyone in the state of Kentucky"

Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation ' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.

NO POLITICIAN COULD devote as many evenings to poker and whiskey as had Henry Clay and expect a decorous presidential campaign.

The reference to Quirinius is therefore not a historical factoid; it is designed to remind readers about political leaders who promote armed rebellion.

Any story set in the reign of King Herod is a story of political intrigue and of threats to life.

Democracy in the market does not need ballot boxes.

economist can be a political scientist, but the opposite is difficult for political scientists

mon grand-père m'a dit que si le patriotisme se mesure en portant un drapeau, alors les bâtiments gouvernementaux sont patriotiques qu'autre chose

Politicians are stupid. The saying expires as soon as I enter politics.

the communist does not believe in religion, but he may resort to it if finds justification for his theory.