Quotes About Politics

It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to handle, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes in a state's constitution. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new.

For, although one may be very strong in armed forces, yet in entering a province one has always need of the goodwill of the natives.

The dictatorship did not elate me, nor did exile depress me.

Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.

Martha C. Nussbaum's manifesto Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

the futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it.

I think overall it's a disadvantage," Jeb Bush once said of what it meant for his business career that he was the son of an American president and the brother of an American president and the grandson of a wealthy Wall Street banker and US senator.

The strange and mysterious and highly amusing thing is that probably you would have very great difficulty in finding a single Marxist in the U.S.S.R. You would only find Marxists among left-wing Jesuits in the faculties of universities in the West, which is one of God's little jokes.

If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

The problem with the Mindset of a fair Democracy is that it purports to be a fair and trustworthy system, but history shows clearly how the voters' trust has been constantly abused.

The political Greeders mindset wastes resources that could transform the future of tens of millions of people and the destinies of the countries.We need to rethink Leadership and politics.

Success in politics is the art of the timely lie.

'Sympathy for the Devil' is just another way of saying 'Compassionate Conservative'.

Barack Obama has exhibited sympathy, if not for the terrorists, then certainly for the Islamic supremacists.

Donald Trump has no sympathy with underdogs. They, including the Palestinians, are just "losers." So he will bring words and action together as Netanyahu wishes.

Sympathy is a characteristic trait of politicians and empathy an emotion of the masses.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is fun.

When a guy running for president will not support the troops, not support veterans, not support teachers, that's really important.

Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying to get textbooks banned.

I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.

Just as novels have come to be seen as narratives of identity, so too has politics become, for many, a search for personal authenticity, a journey of self-discovery.

that politics has invaded everything, spared nothing . . . religion, art, family . . . it has taken over everything . . . there is no escape from it . . .

If whole societies and polities are to adapt then the necessary decisions will need to be made collectively, within political institutions, as happens in wartime or national emergencies. After all, isn't that what politics, in its most fundamental form, is about? Collective survival and the preservation of the body politic?