Quotes About Politics

How did our politics get so poisonous? … You take a little bit of [the poison] so you can hate the other, and it tastes kinda good, and you like how it feels and there's a gentle high to the condemnation. And you know you're right? Right? You know you're right.

This bureaucracy had been created after 9/11 because of political

Abortions, gay marriage, legalized pot, all of that should be decided by the states. Whatever happened to the governmental powers reserved to the states? Let's declare ourselves independent, give the people of Oklahoma the right to decide which laws they want to live under, and tell Barry Soetoro where to go and what to do to himself when he gets there.

It's the ultimate theater. The stakes are money, the mother's milk of politics, great heaping mountains of it. And the actors are politicians, without a doubt the lowest form of animate life. Charlatans, mountebanks, liars, hypocrites—they'd cut off your nuts for another term in office, or even a favorable article in a hometown newspaper.

De todos los tópicos acerca de la política, existe uno que se defiende con más fuerza que el resto: el dinero compra elecciones.

The businessmen spoke little and did much, while the politicians did as little as possible and spoke much.

There is an irony here. MacArthur, the most political of generals, never succeeded in politics, while three of the most apolitical generals in American history, Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower, did.

Taken all together, 1952 is recalled as one of the bitterest campaigns of the twentieth century, and the one that featured the most mudslinging.

History of the United States in the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson

Vyacheslav Molotov

British and Free French in the Mediterranean were fighting to retain their colonial empires. Roosevelt said he hoped to

Sometimes political correctness exists more in the furious minds of its enemies than in reality, which gets n with compromise and common sense without too much hysteria.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Equações são mais importantes para mim, pois a política existe para o presente, ao passo que uma equação existe para a eternidade.

If there are beings alive on Alpha Centauri today, they remain blissfully ignorant of the rise of Donald Trump. It

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity - Albert Einstein

he was a man of politics and a man of action.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

Politics always change. Stories never do.

Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they're always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake.

If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable, I'm going to kill myself, because I won't know what else to do. You see, politics always change. Stories never do.

Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI)

In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.

If you can't afford a movie, go to the zoo. If you can't afford the zoo, go see a politician.