Quotes About Politics

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

God as a working hypothesis in morals, politics, or science has been surmounted and abolished; and the same thing has happened in philosophy and religion (Feuerbach!). For the sake of intellectual honesty, that working hypothesis should be dropped, or as far as possible eliminated.

There were a host of people who viewed my rejection of National Socialism as exaggerated and who perceived my sharp tone as un-Austrian. Even many Austrians whose political views were relatively good found my stance too abrupt and not in keeping with Austrian sensibilities.

Today, there are probably more Marxists on the faculty of our elite colleges than there are in all of Russia and Eastern Europe.

Leading Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan in the late nineteenth century and then, after Republicans shut it down, revived it in the early twentieth century.

Today the left continues with this project of concealment. It doesn't want people—especially young people—to know the role of the Democrats in protecting slavery and advancing racism.

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

Finally—and this is the seventh familiar theme of Venezuelan socialism—there is getting rich off politics. Once again, that does not occur in Scandinavia. There is not a single politician in Norway, Sweden or Denmark who has gone from zero to $10 million—or $200 million—while largely employed in the public sector.

But in Venezuela, as in America, it is quite possible for "public servants" to become very rich. In fact, it is hard to name any prominent figure on the Venezuelan left, as on the American left, who hasn't profited handsomely from their politics. Apparently they all came to do good and stayed to do very well.

It was mainly developed as a political device to help build the power of the orthodox church and to help overcome the influence of the gnostics.

She stopped, picked up the paper, stood there to read the headlines. But nothing seemed changed, or at least the paper made the current crises sound like all the old ones; the ferment of politics, the clash of minor foreign wars, the dismay over local crime seemed of a pattern she'd always known.

La América entera se ha burlado de aquellas famosas fiestas de Buenos Aires y mirádolas como el colmo de la degradación de un pueblo; pero yo no veo en ellas sino un designio político, el más fecundo en resultados.

In July and August 1914, fewer than fifty individuals, all of them men, made the decisions that took their countries to war.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others change their principles for the sake of their party.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Outside half a dozen youthful demonstrators chanted about the rights of the 'young unemployed'. The Prime Minister excepted, they were the best dressed people in West Torrens. There is no disguising a Young Liberal's haircut.

Tell me you don't want to do those women on Fox News," Jimena says. "Tell me you don't," Giorgio counters. "Anyway, of course I do. I want to convert them through the subversive power of the orgasm." "So it would be a political act," Jimena says. "I am willing to sacrifice myself for the cause," Giorgio answers.