Quotes About Politics

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.

I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations ' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?)

Keeping the future open by refraining from making irrevocable decisions that one could eventually regret, requires vigilance, reflection, and sagacity at all times. Politics, as the art of preserving the possibility of choices and debate on those choices, is therefore at the heart of technological dynamics.

If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.

The current pattern—of religious attenders being more Republican, especially among high-income voters—has been happening since Bill Clinton's election in 1992, with no consistent patterns before then.

The rich Northeast and West of the United States, along with much of Europe, seem to have moved toward what might be called a postindustrial politics in which supporters of liberal and conservative parties differ more on religion than on income, and politics feels more like a culture war than a class war. Meanwhile, poorer states in the South and middle of the country look more like Mexico, with a more traditional pattern of votes of the rich and poor.

Each political party has marginalized the political center, because they feel that all they have to do is energize their base. It's a political strategy. Before, you know, when I was in politics, it was a matter of both parties competing for the center, competing for the independents. That is gone now. —John Danforth, former U.S. senator from Missouri, 2006

As figure A.6 shows, state-by-state election swings have generally been declining over the past few decades. The red-blue map is much more stable from election to election than it used to be.

Rich voters are much more Republican than poor voters, especially in poor states, a pattern that emerged after 1990.

Social networks are indeed politically segregated—surveys find Democrats are more likely to know more Democrats and Republicans more likely to know more Republicans—but it is difficult to know how much is from geography (red or blue states, regions, neighborhoods, and workplaces) and the extent to which polarized social networks cause, or are the product of, polarization in attitudes.

As my grandmother told me — never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig likes it. So ignore him and vote, Florida!"

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

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Billy Graham's success in finding a way to move beyond the outmoded racial politics and strained racial theology of the Old South would be a model for the rise of the Religious Right and its leaders, including Jerry Falwell in the 1980s and 90s.

I had heard so-called "Christian" military and political leaders proposing that the U.S. bomb the dikes and dams along the Red River delta in Vietnam in order to "defeat Communism," thus potentially killing hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. I began asking myself, what sort of religion would justify such arrogance and criminality?