Quotes About Politics

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican'

If I decide to run for office, I will release my tax returns. Absolutely. I would love to do that.

I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.

I love JFK. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with.

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

Who cares if you are prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?

The person who is speaking in this manner believes that winning the argument makes him right, and that doing so necessarily validates the assumption-structure of the dominance hierarchy he most identifies with. This is often—and unsurprisingly—the hierarchy within which he has achieved the most success, or the one with which he is most temperamentally aligned. Almost all discussions involving politics or economics unfold in this manner,

You can use words to manipulate the world into delivering what you want. This is what it means to "act politically." This is spin. It's the specialty of unscrupulous marketers, salesmen, advertisers, pickup artists, slogan-possessed utopians and psychopaths

You can explain it to a Congressman in six minutes and he can talk about it for six months.

Democracy is a mess—but it kind of works.

if your government isn't wasteful, you're spending too much time fighting government waste.

En las plantaciones, los trabajadores casan hasta con un pedazo de palo si viste polleras. Para tener mujer en casa, para poder acostarse con ella, también para poder conversar. La mujer presta muchos servicios, usted ni siquiera se imagina. Ayuda hasta en la pollítica. Le da hijos a uno, impone respeto. Para lo demás, están las mujerzuelas

Digo que esta noticia me parece interesante, porque es prueba de que en un país en donde no existe lo que pudiera llamarse oposición, hay en cambio partidarios de lo que sea, siempre y cuando se refiera al pasado.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Niemand profiteert meer van cynisme over politiek dan cynische politici.

Such an inveterate stupidity, such a scorn for literature and art, such a hatred for all the ideas he worshipped, were implanted and anchored in these merchant minds, exclusively preoccupied with the business of swindling and money-making, and accessible only to ideas of politics--that base distraction of mediocrities--that he returned enraged to his home and locked himself in with his books.

Muchos creían que sólo con proclamarse la república se pondría fin a esa situación. Era algo que se había difundido, con gran irresponsabilidad, muchos republicanos, considerando que los males que afectaban al país eran consecuencia de la existencia de una monarquía.

Vivimos tiempos en los que la demagogia ha sustituido a lo que debe ser la política y halagar las pasiones del pueblo es moneda corriente.

Cuba and Belgium are both countries of modest size, surrounded by large, powerful and often hostile powers.

y el buen gobernante en América no es el que sabe cómo se gobierna el alemán o el francés, sino el que sabe con qué elementos está hecho su país

Más de una vez me he entretenido imaginando qué habría acontecido si, en lugar de hombres de Castilla, hubieran sido encargados, mil años hace, los "unitarios" de ahora, catalanes y vascos, de formar esta enorme cosa que llamamos España. Yo sospecho que, aplicando sus métodos y dando con sus testas en el yunque, lejos de arribar a la España una, habrían dejado la Península convertida en una pululación de mil cantones.