Quotes About Perception

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

I think politics come out of psychology.

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

How can a president not be an actor?

There's a huge difference in the attitude of the people of the United States of America toward women in politics. It has taken an enormous turn toward equality.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.