Quotes About Politics

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Myth is depoliticized speech.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

Der Endzweck des Staates ist [...] im Grund die Freiheit.

Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from citizens.

His faith was the guiding principle of his life but it was an intensely reflective personal faith which could not be contained within the rules of a sect. Institutional politics, whether of the church, the state or the university, was a topic that never engaged his interest.

Democracy is the menopause of Western society.

you say that men are worse than women, as most people do, then of course we improve them by closer political

But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow

We have many candidates, like in reality television, but we don't really have a leader.

Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

You don't plan on doing reality TV if you plan on getting involved in politics. My show was pretty benign, but you do say and do things that are dumb at that age. Those shows have me locked in at age 25.

I think people can't say anymore, 'Celebrities should keep their political opinions to themselves,' because we elected a reality TV star, so I think that's off limits.

When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

I realized that liberals were actually the racists. Liberals were actually the trolls.

I feel the UPA government has realized that it is not coming back to power.

I think I went into poli-sci because I knew there was a stage, plus I thought I wanted to help people, and I realized in poli-sci that if you want to be a politician you're either born into it, or you've got an amazing brain, which those are rare - and I don't have one.

But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

Brands are increasingly flirting with the realm of politics.

Far too often in the political realm, we demonize success; we demagogue against it. What we should be doing is incentivizing success.

I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent.

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.