Quotes About Politics

I've never believed in my own political manifest destiny.

I'm no longer a believer in politicians endorsing other politicians.

The BJP believes in building its individual strength.

If there is a Republican or a Libertarian or Green Party person that believes in Medicare for all, then that's our kind of person.

In politics, when you wake up, you can make out who belongs to which party. In cinema, you cannot make out who belongs where. Everybody looks like your friend.

Israel may be beloved, but for American security, it is not essential.

Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day counterparts.

Fundamentalists call defrauding the government "bleeding the beast" and regard it as a virtuous act.

President George W. Bush, who believes he is an instrument of God and characterizes international relations as a biblical clash between forces of good and evil.

We live in a center-right country. Now watch me smile oleaginously.

For Jefferson, politics was not a dispiriting distraction but an undertaking that made everything else possible.

A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half of the time.

In the charged and complicated spheres of identity, politics, philosophy, and power in America, though, racism was not situational but systemic.

You have to appeal to people's best instincts, not their worst ones. You may win an election or so by doing the other, but it does a lot of harm to the country.

Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.

The demands of exercising it once it is won, however, are so complex and fluid that ideological certitude is often among the first casualties of actual governing.

Well," Bush answered, "I'm worried that sometimes your idealism will get in the way of what I think is sound governance.

Politicians often talk too much and listen too little, which can be self-defeating, for in many instances the surer route to winning a friend is not to convince them that you are right but that you care what they

A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible accord with the ideal and the principled.

We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That's what we believed in, that's why we voted for Donald Trump. Because he said he's going to take our country back. And that's what we gotta do.

There it was again: conscience. Lincoln believed he was acting according to motives higher than the merely political. "The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance," Lincoln had written to the Quaker Eliza P. Gurney in September. "Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

He was seeking the presidency of a country riven not only by competing interests but by incompatible understandings of reality.

The presidency which under Lincoln had been a tool of transformation had become, under Johnson, a refuge from modernity.