Quotes About Perspective

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.