Quotes About Politics

Coalition politics, the building of bridges between disparate groups who share a common vision of how things should be, is a strategy that calls for a tough blend of clarity, compassion, and most of all the willingness to experience someone else's history.

We have the best congressmen that money can buy.

Demagogues direct our frustrations against other groups, blaming those most victimized. For the failures of corporate capitalism, we scapegoat each other.

The Arkansas House deserves special mention. In 1837, when a representative insulted the Speaker during debate, the Speaker stepped down from his platform, bowie knife in hand, and killed him. Expelled and tried for murder, he was acquitted for excusable homicide and reelected, only to pull his knife on another legislator during debate, though this time the sound of colleagues cocking pistols stopped him cold.

Sectional conspiracy theories were eroding cross-sectional trust inside and outside of Congress, destroying any hope of a middle ground.

Although a few Northern newspapers bought Foote's threat wholesale, most considered gunplay possible but not probable. Armed Southerners probably wouldn't break up the House, they advised, but hadn't Southern congressmen proven time and again that they were capable of it?

Era de izquierdas, pero ahora no lo soy tanto porque tengo ojos y oídos

Machado de Assis is a kind of miracle, another demonstration of the autonomy of literary genius in regard to time and place, politics and religion.

Come on Geena. Dude's slippery as hell. He could talk his way out of a blow job in the Oval Office.

Government is tyranny. At its best it is dressed in pretty colours.

But things are always going to be better, or were better long ago. No politician ever got anywhere by telling people things are just right as they are.

One task is to identify what for some time I have referred to as the "epistemic politics" that often sever colonial pasts from their contemporary translations

ask explicitly how the "slow violence" of imperial formations is dislodged from the politics of its making and renamed.

An excursion through the politics of conceptual labor is the meat of the chapters that follow. The political effects and practices that imperial formations impose and induce are its marrow.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.

The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.

Poor George, he can't help it—he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

There was the fact that you created a political statement everywhere you went, and with everything you did, even if you didn't want to.

It is a political fight between a group of well-financed, well-organized people whose freedom, livelihood, finances, reputations, or liberty is being threatened by disclosures of child sexual abuse and--on the other hand--a group of well-meaning, ill-organized, underfinanced, and often terribly naive academics who expect fair play.

Tarquin Vale. The Earl of Ashcroft. Plotocrat. Collector. Devotee of reformist politics. Rake. Debauchee. Hellspawn. Unwitting key to a future greater than she'd dreamed was possible.