Quotes About Politics

El populismo es el uso demagógico de la democracia para acabar con ella.

En política no hay amigos que valgan

en la política real, el bando del bien no existe.

Como de costumbre, las declaraciones de los políticos eran irrelevantes: lo que de verdad importaba eran los detalles ocultos tras bambalinas, los papelillos reveladores que dejaban a la vista por descuido.

ahora se siente estúpido porque le parece que sólo posee una inteligencia moral; es decir, una inteligencia que no es ni científica, ni política, ni financiera, ni práctica, ni filosófica, etc.

In short, the neoconservative Jewish intelligentsia transformed universalism into Occidentalism.

the deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the Pentagon official Abram Shulsky, the Middle East presidential adviser Elliot Abrams and the strategist of the war on Iraq, Richard Perle.68

London, at the same time, Isaac Deutscher distinguished between 'heretics' and 'renegades' (communists who became anti-Stalinist and those who became anti-communist), in a definition that sought not to cast anathemas but rather to describe a psychological attitude and a mental habitus.

other words, she seems to ignore the fact that political participation presupposes access to culture and information, mastery of the tools of reflection, a certain availability of time and, above all, the satisfaction of socially determined needs.

We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.

The U.S. concern is not who is fundamentalist and who is progressive, who treats women nicely and who treats them badly. That's not the issue. The issue is who is more likely to ensure the safety of the oil resources that the United States or its corporations could control?

economic performance counts heavily in the development of a political system's legitimacy

Membership in the Nazi Party was even forbidden by the Church for some time.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.

The logic of Michelangelo's David, Beethoven's quartets and Einstein's physics had been replaced by that of the Stock Exchange Year Book and Hitler's Mein Kampf.

The successful man is the one whose images correspond most closely to reality, because then his actions will lead to the results which he imagines. A man's failures depend upon the fact that his images do not correspond to reality, whether he is dealing with marriage, politics, business, or the horse races.

Morgenthau quotes

The struggle within Turkey that continues to this day is the legacy of Kemal Ataturk's radical reformation

Kemal's former opponents in the CUP, all dead by 1930, were resuscitated as heroes in the Turkish national consciousness.