Quotes About Politics

People like me on the centre-left of politics have a fight on our hands. Our job is to appeal to people's hopes and aspirations by providing real answers to the challenges facing our country.

I love provincial politics.

If you read the Senate rules, there are provisions where the Senate parliamentarian can be overridden.

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

I am the political psychiatrist to the stars.

What seems not yet to have been sufficiently explored is the emancipating potential of the discursive form of psychoanalysis in politics as a counterpoint of marketing.

Psychological mapping for political ends is now going to be part of every campaign.

My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics and psychology and anthropology, all of these different things you have to deal with.

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.

Saying that the Palestinian people aren't really a people - that's not a zany thing to say. That's a psychotic thing to say in the midst of all of the politics we live through on a daily basis.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

The difference between comedians and the general public is that we are meant to be funnier. And when you've got politicians giving material so easy that the general public is doing it, what is the necessity of us anymore?

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.

I'm not going to discuss things that are internal party matters and things that are not supposed to be in public domain.

The core of my platform is to change the role of money in politics, support public education and break up monopoly power. All of these are fundamental prerequisites to a responsive democracy.

Right-wingers don't want public education to succeed.

I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.