Quotes About Politics

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

A couple of buffoons were running for some state-senate seat just vacated by the incumbent's prison term. One accused the other of being "against the Internet" - a knockout punch in a world where whole hordes of humans think better sex is a faster modem.

All governments are made up of fools and they serve a lunatic.

Luckily, American politicians tend to be cheaply bought and we have been able to outbid the Kaiser.

Religion and kings don't mix – ought to be banned!

You must win general elections. Having done so, you can ignore the masses for the next three or four years,

Only in Italy are elections as carnivalesque as they are here. Except, in Ukraine, the carnival is always anarchistic, and more or less uncontrollable.

In politics there is nothing simpler than simply talking, and nothing more complicated than simply acting.

Cuando alguien me comunica que es apolítico, siempre pregunto en qué política concreta está pensando.

Because the people are ignorant, stupid, and easy to manipulate," Skellen finished the sentence, after he had himself a sneeze. "You need only 'Hurrah!' and make a speech from the senate steps promising to open the prisons and cut the taxes." "You are absolutely right, Owl," said the syllable stretcher. "Now I know why you shout so loudly for democracy.

When someone tells me he is politically neutral," Francesca smiled, "I always ask which politics he specifically has in mind.

Conozco algo la política, sé que tiene dos fines alternativos: uno es el entendimiento, el otro el conflicto. El entendimiento se alcanza cuando uno de los bandos finge que se traga las trolas que le cuenta el otro bando.

The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.

You see, the danger to America is not a single politician with ill intent. Or even a group of them. The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.

the danger to America is not a single politician with ill intent. Or even a group of them. The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.

By the way, have you ever noticed that if any one of us lies to them, it is a felony? But if any one of them lies to us, it is considered politics.

Think about it... The Republicans have gone from Abraham Lincoln to Sarah Palin to Donald Trump. No wonder they don't believe in evolution.

Who's the most ignorant person the United States is willing to elect?

Over the past fifty years, what some of our most prominent politicians didn't know could fill a book. This is that book.

Quayle was George Bush 2.0, sharing not just the original model's privileged upbringing but also his hapless steel-cage match with the English language

Even on this topic, though, there was some disagreement, as Tea Partiers split over whether the president was a communist, a Nazi, or both.)

Since he also asked, famously, "Is our children learning?" one expected that his first official act as president would be to cancel the agreement between subjects and verbs.)

For me, politics are a fundamental element of being human. They are the process by which we collectively interact with each other, resolve conflicts and try to solve larger social or environmental problems. There are family politics, neighborhood politics, local politics, national politics and international politics. Humans are political animals and I find those interactions interesting, amusing and important. (2014 interview with iamhiphop)