Quotes About Politics

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.

Politicians cover their mistakes with money; cooks cover their mistakes with mayonnaise; doctors cover theirs with dirt.

All you had to see was the bumper sticker on their Prius—VOTING IS LIKE DRIVING: R GOES BACKWARD, D GOES FORWARD—to know we were going to be all right.

VOTING IS LIKE DRIVING: R GOES BACKWARD, D GOES FORWARD

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else.

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

By 1948, "to err is Truman" became a popular expression, and a Newsweek poll of fifty political pundits found that every one of them predicted his defeat. His 1948 Republican opponent was the popular Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who had been the party's nominee against Roosevelt four years before.

Given what we know today about Stalin's crimes against his own people, it is hard to imagine that as late as 1947, most Americans saw "Uncle Joe's" USSR as an ally. Since Germany's invasion of Russia in June 1941, the Soviet Union joined with the Allies and bore the brunt of the fighting.

I'd learned something important about politics Kennedy-style: The cause was everything. Win or lose, spend yourself completely, leave nothing on the table, not even your health. Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could've done.

Political bias is less insidious in modern media than economic bias— in which news is just another kind of marketing, as packaged and focus-group tested as politics and music and dish soap.

2 days to the U.N.

There's more politics in the police department than the Catholic Church,

President Barack Obama, supposed friend of the common man, has put Monsanto's own vice president, GMO shepherd Michael Taylor, in charge of food safety.

Populist politics only appeals to intuitive logic, because that which is intuitive can be comprehended by the masses.

Halfway through the televised debate I kick my boot into the screen. Even on mute I can't stand it. It feels good to smash the TV, though. I feel like I'm participating in the political system.

O?evidno je da ne postoji nikakav smisao povijesti koji bi se dao spasiti le?ima okrenutim prema Auschwitzu niti postoji Bog kojemu se ?ovjek može klanjati le?a okrenutih prema Auschwitzu. Kao teološko-politi?ka katastrofa Auschwitz ne ostavlja pošte?enima niti krš?anstvo i njegovu teologiju niti društvo i njegovu politiku.

Political pessimism keeps people trapped in a search for purely personal and individual solutions.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.