Quotes About Politics

The significance of a political philosopher does not depend on the practical success of the plans he lays down but rather on their absolute truth and the influence they exert on the progress of mankind. If

in contrast to Europe, where between 1894 and 1914 five heads of state, three prime ministers, and one president were assassinated.

As far as Queen Caroline was concerned, this was another example of Frederick's treachery, a deliberate attempt to prevent Frederick's younger brother William, her favourite, from inheriting the throne.

Theory -the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees- theory can be a dew that rises from earth and collects in the rain cloud and returns to earth over and over. But if it doesn't smell of the earth, it isn't good for earth. -Notes Toward a Politics of Location

Perhaps many white North Americans fear an overtly political art because it might persuade us emotionally of what we think we are "rationally" against; it might get us on a level we have lost touch with; undermine the safety we have built for oneselves, remind us of what is better left forgotten.

As a woman I have a country; as a woman I cannot divest myself of that country merely bu condemning its government or by saying three times "As a woman my country is the whole world." -Notes Towards a Politics of Location.

I'm going to be a Republican who happens to be black - who will talk about issues that I'm passionate about.

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.

When I got to 'The Daily Show,' they asked me to have a political opinion. It turned out that I had one, but I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.

In many parts of the country, like South India, people don't bother much about the nationalist passions that BJP was attempting to rouse for electoral benefits.

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

Bachelor parties would pay a lot of money to hire Pat Buchanan to come.

I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.

Most of my promos are straight out of Pat Buchanan's run for election.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.

A deep appreciation for politics comes from empathy for our fellow human beings and their diverse paths through life.

When the two have crossed paths in public, McCain hasn't even tried to mask his ill will toward Obama.

I'm constantly looking for ways to learn and elevate your craft, patience for yourself, and patience for this business. It's not a fair business. You may be great, but it may take years for someone to notice what you're capable of because of politics.

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

I don't have the patience... an angry man cannot get into politics.

As Democrats, we will never be fooled into believing that if we are patient enough, that Donald Trump could be a good president.

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.