Quotes About Politics

But the bird's trilling, the dependable presence of Foolish, comforted Doremus, made military drill and belching politicians seem unimportant and in security he dropped asleep in the worn brown leather chair.

I tell you, an honest man gets sick when he hears the word 'Liberty' today, after what the Republicans did to it!

Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut 'Liberty cabbage' and somebody actually proposed calling German measles 'Liberty measles'? And wartime censorship of honest papers? Bad as Russia!

Louis was altogether convinced that if the ignorant politicians would keep their dirty hands off banking and the stock exchange and hours of labor for salesmen in department stores, then everyone in the country would profit, as beneficiaries of increased business, and all of them (including the retail clerks) be rich as Aga Khan.

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism

Most of them had, among all the factors in the campaign, noticed only what they regarded as Windrip's humor, and three planks in his platform: Five, which promised to increase taxes on the rich; Ten, which condemned the Negroes--since nothing so elevates a dispossessed farmer or a factory worker on relief as to have some race, any race, on which he can look down; and, especially, Eleven, which announced, or seemed to announce, that the average toiler would immediately receive $5000 a year.

He liked Ross Ireland; he found particularly amusing, very like his own cultural pretenses, the fact that since Ireland was totally unable to learn any language save Iowan, he thundered that English was enough to take anybody anywhere and that these fellows that talk about your having to know French if you're going to do political stuff in Europe are just trying to show what smart guys they are.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

I bet Obama had a great one prepared," says Seb. "I almost wish we'd been invaded by Martians, just so I could have heard it.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

I don't bring God into my life to - to, you know, kind of be a political person.

I view my time in politics as a chapter, not my life.

The president should not be able to make me or you ever worried about what's going to happen in our personal life.

My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.