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Quotes About Topics

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.
~ Brooks Hays
Does politics have to be injected into everything?
~ Sargent Shriver
In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.
~ Thomas Sowell
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
~ Harry Hay
There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.
~ Larry Niven
The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
~ Alan Bradley
Emotion is a rotten base for politics.
~ Dick Francis
Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
~ Chris Lilley
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
~ Calvin Trillin
We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.
~ Ali Suliman
Politics are not my arena. Music is.
~ Aretha Franklin
Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.
~ William J. Clinton
Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.
~ Will Rogers
I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.
~ Dan Quayle
In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.
~ Jonathan Krohn
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
did. They had class at the same time in the
~ Will Leitch
fascinating book on story structure Into the Woods
~ Will Storr
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
~ William Beveridge
My wretched dragon is perplexed.
~ William Butler Yeats
He also used to oblige them to wear long leather drawers, filled with live cats.
~ William Dalrymple
Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?
~ William Edgar Stafford
Now, the plan of plundering each other produces nothing. It only wastes. All
~ William Graham Sumner
Then Jethro Furber wondered whether Omensetter wasn't an actor.
~ William H. Gass