Quotes About Politics

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

Human rights politics and law went some way to sensitizing humanity to the misery of visible indigence alongside the horrific repression of authoritarian and totalitarian states—but not to the crisis of national welfare, the stagnation of middle classes, and the endurance of global hierarchy.

Focusing on sufficient protections, human rights norms and politics have selectively emphasized one aspect of social justice, scanting in particular the distributional victory of the rich. It is as if in our highest ethics, material gains for the poor were all that could matter, either morally or strategically, when human rights placed any stress on material injustice at all.

For the moment, at least, human rights history is worth telling because it reveals how partial our activism has become, choosing sufficiency alone as intractable crises in politics and economics continue to mount.

Today China's economic power," Richard Nixon observed in 1994, "makes U.S. lectures about human rights imprudent. Within a decade it will make them irrelevant. Within two decades it will make them laughable.

The European powers make it clear that they do not want a Muslim state, Turkey, in the European Union and are not happy about having a second Muslim state, Bosnia, on the European continent.

Like the Chinese, the Japanese see international politics as hierarchical because their domestic politics are.

We Americans" face a substantive problem of national identity epitomized by the subject of this sentence. Are we a "we," one people or several? If we are a "we," what distinguishes us from the "thems" who are not us? Race, religion, ethnicity, values, culture, wealth, politics, or what?

For the present, can Taiwan remain democratic without becoming formally independent? In the future could Taiwan be democratic without remaining actually independent?

Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.

God and Caesar, church and state, spiritual authority and temporal authority, have been a prevailing dualism in Western culture. Only in Hindu civilization were religion and politics also so distinctly separated. In Islam, God is Caesar; in China and Japan, Caesar is God; in Orthodoxy, God is Caesar's junior partner.

Mr. Moore-tól hallom a nagy újságot, hogy Lady Castlemaine kegyvesztett lett és ma reggel elhagyta az udvart. Okát nem tudja, csak azt, hogy így van, amit én nagyon sajnálok, de ha a király nemcsak ?t hagyja el, hanem a többi szeret?it is, akkor szívb?l örülök ennek, mert úgy lehet, akkor majd többet tör?dik az ország dolgaival.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Sabes cuál es el nombre contemporáneo de la perversidad? Se llama democracia. Si un chimpancé con un tambor llega a ser popular y gracioso, podría ser elegido presidente.

Para los mariateguistas, la prioridad académica era el adoctrinamiento.

starting in the 1970s, the left began to mistake the ends for the means.

The collapse of the safety net was no accident. It was the result of neglect on the left and sabotage on the right