Quotes About Politics

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

Politicians use economics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination. —variation on a theme of Andrew Lang (1910)

And why did we need both an SEC and a CFTC—which often battled each other—to regulate the securities markets? Was the profusion of agencies grounded in some underlying legal or economic logic, or was it mainly about turf? The main answer was political: If you have multiple regulators, you need multiple congressional oversight committees, each of which is a gold mine for political contributions.

Similarly, if we ever get immigration reform, it will likely be forged in a series of political compromises with no coherent principles or philosophy. I