Quotes About Politics

decisions. A July 2002 New York Times/CBS News poll revealed that 45 percent of Americans thought "other people are really running the government."20 Following

or the inordinate influence of corporate powers on governmental decision-making.

the wake of September 11, George W. Bush's $2.13 trillion budget (which put the country $80 billion in the red) increased the Pentagon's annual account to $451 billion by 2007. This is more than the budgets

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part of causing us to stop helping the South Vietnamese. Now look what's happening. They're getting killed by the millions. Murdered by the millions. How the hell can she and her husband sleep at night?

Its place is in the shady world of political trade-offs and vacillating leaders and institutions hell-bent on survival.

God has revealed that Donald Trump will be elected for a second term. This

Half the political intelligentsia who talk to a working audience don't get the value of their stuff across—not so much because they're over their audience's heads, as because half the chaps are listening to the voice and not to the words, so they knock a big discount off what they do hear because it's all a bit fancy, and not like ordinary, normal talk.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's? If all the energy that is put into diddling mugs for their votes could be turned on to useful work, what a nation we could be!

Do you recall a shepherd's crook, Laurence? And Gladstone-bag? We may be Liberals, but I didn't know we had a Gladstone-bag.

He didn't seem to understand yet was that I didn't really care about the ways of Washington.

What kind of vice president would I want—someone like Mike Pence, who looks adoringly at Donald Trump whenever he speaks? (I already have a dog.)

Before he became Amir, Abdur Rahman had been defeated by Shir Ali in Kabul. He took refuge in Samarkand where he spent ten years. Taking him for a country bumpkin, the Russians used to discuss all their political affairs before him, convinced that he did not understand them. But the future Amir had studied Russian secretly and learned much about Asiatic politics. Walking through the empty halls of Jahnama, I thought of him—bearded, shrewd, wearing the astrakhan kola,

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something in nature that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. Aristotle Politics, c. 328 BC

Voters in a so-called democracy may depose tyrants or crooks in isolated cases but they cannot give birth, full grown like Minerva, to honest and experienced statesmen to take their places.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

So much of the news was invented for propaganda.

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

The enormous energy which characterized the Viking Age and which had sent waves of people across many parts of Europe had now dwindled, but the deeds of the Viking Age inspired Scandinavian literature, history and politics, and enhanced national pride and identity.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

Nos conceptions politiques nous sont dictées par notre sentiment ou notre vision du temps.

Un popor nu se poate compromite decât prin pruden??.

În cadrul naÅ£iunii, democraÅ£ia a dat naÅŸtere unei pluralit??i de formaÅ£ii divergente, care r?pesc evoluÅ£iei naÅ£ionale un sens convergent.

Per i patrizi repubblicani degli Stati Uniti, profondamente diffidenti verso la plebaglia e la democrazia, l'esito della Rivoluzione francese confermava che la democrazia dei plebei conduce alla tirannia del demagogo. «I