Quotes About Politics

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

Sarah Palin is living proof that you can't make a silk purse out of a horse's ass.

Yes, Bush spouted a bunch of religious crap, but at least he didn't believe in it. Give the man a beer. Sometimes hypocrisy is better than faith.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism." [ Address to National Press Club in Washington DC , as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)]

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

Clearly Hitler was not the representative of any single group or class but many groups at the same time. [...] He had no choice if he wanted to stay in power, for no group was so powerful that he could base his power on it alone

Today, the voice of populist infantile politics is amplified by social media allowing the ignorant to claim equality with the informed.

Ben de counting began and it became clear that ErdoÄŸan would not win, the Higher Electoral Board changed the election law from 1 hour to the next, following pressure from the later himself, and egregious fake votes for ErdoÄŸan were deemed valid.

during the 8 years of his second term as prime minister, by supplying the unemployed with menial state-paid seasonal summer jobs designed by local government which took only a few hours a day, Orbán had lowered the unemployment rate from 11.4 to 3.8 per cent. This provided him with thousands of loyal supporters whose daily bread depended on his reelection.

We have also failed to grasp the fact that understanding requires action. If we are not politically active or reactive, then the act of understanding turns into only the expression and exchange of emotional responses.

This is almost childish." one might think. "It seems infantile" And it is. That's why, first and foremost, such leaders need to infantilise the people.

A new generation that will hold on to its religion and grudges was being built, just as president ErdoÄŸan had promised years ago.

Once you infantilise the common political narrative, it becomes easier to mobilise the masses, and from then on you can promise them anything.

He also knew that the call to break the imaginary chains of slavery preventing the real people from reaching greatness would resonate with his supporters, regardless of the fact that it sounded absurd to those who had had the chance to become what they wanted to be. 'It's not you,' he told them. 'It's them who prevent us from being great.' He gave them something solid to hate, and they gave him their votes.

For many of those who are privileged enough to be in a position to try to analyse the important matters of big politics, the ordinary man's feeling of smallness and the rage it engenders are inaccessible, and so it is equally hard for them to comprehend how that smallness might desperately crave to be part of a we that promises greatness.

It's like making a milkshake without the lid on,' wrote a Turkish twitter user, trying to describe the impossibility of having a proper political discussion with ErdoÄŸan supporters.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

George Marshall, Senior, was a locally prominent Democrat, a Bryan man still, despite President McKinley's election, not one to give or expect a dollop of non-partisan patronage.

People like passion in politics.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.