Quotes About Politics

If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.

I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

I wasn't any good at sports, but I could name all the presidents by the time I was six. I've always been very interested in politics and in religion.

Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

There's no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

The reference to John Podesta is general. It is not specific. And, by the way, he does have his time in the barrel shortly thereafter.

If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they were selling them!

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

At a time when America should be doing everything we can to lead the fight to defeat ISIS and other radical jihadists, Donald Trump is playing right into their hands.