Quotes About Politics

So we see that a plan is in play to debase the U.S. economy and impose a socialist system

But when it comes to foreign policy and particularly issues involving the corporations, the banks, or the military, there is no difference between the two parties.

in-the-mud. He rarely wanted to talk about anything other than politics or legislative business. He liked to drink, but even when drunk he was usually all business."5 Burton was that rare force in American democracy: a ruthless ideologue. He came up through the competitive ranks of political infighting in San Francisco, where cultural forgiveness masked bitter, hand-to-hand political struggle. As a member of

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

In the U.S., whichever party was in power wasn't interested in support for public health. Public health never competed well for resources in either the House or the Senate. Countries were like people: they didn't value health until they lost it. And then once they got it back, they returned to their old complacency.

I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us."

This school is enough to make anyone a communist.

A ceia indo principiando, somente falei também de sérios assuntos, que eram a política e os negócios da lavoura e cria. Só faltava lá uma boa cerveja e alguém com jornal na mão, para alto se ler e a respeito disso tudo se falar.

He remained against Getúlio even after the 1937 coup.

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth, you get angry that so many politicians are playing games with people's trust.

Politics isn't about power, control or manipulation. It's about serving up your very best. You don't understand the power you have until you use it. Helping other people brings out the good in everybody. When hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible.

Alexis de Tocqueville, observing that "there was hardly a political question in the United States that did not sooner or later turn into a judicial one."1

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.