Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile quest for bipartisanship. It has made liberals too allergic to federalism and too shy about grassroots politics.
I’m just sick of the way things are. We’re in an age in which we can’t live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy… What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
Mamata Banerjee and Narendra Modi, the ultimate didi and dada of Indian politics, should really commiserate.
Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.
My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats – in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I’m an old man, born in 1969.
Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.
Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.
I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
The unique thing about our country is that we have Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, and people of all other religions. We have temples and mosques, gurdwaras and churches. But we do not bring all this into politics… This is the difference between India and Pakistan.
In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
In politics, you have to compromise from morning to evening. Democracy is the art of compromise.
There’s a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I’ve never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties.
I feel like a lot of frustration from Americans comes from when they don’t feel like they’re being represented in politics.
Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it’s led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it’s good to be aware of the politics of these genres.
I didn’t come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it’s my kind of politics. It’s like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it’s all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
Oprah’s got good politics, she’s got a good heart, and she’ll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we’re Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.
Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.
I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald’s. I’m completely turned off by the idea of politics.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
I don’t know a lot about politics.
I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
I’ve often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
I try to swim against the current as much as possible when it comes to the tribalism that defines the way people do politics on social media, and I try to present myself as an individual and humanistic voice. I’m interested in people, not just factions.
The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
China-Pakistan relationship is indeed special because it transcends the changes of the times and politics and represents a fine example of friendly state-to-state interactions.
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.
People are gravitating towards Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders because they are doing their own thing. I think people are trying to cut out the middle man and just get to the source and get away from Washington politics.
Westminster politics is very unattractive, and people are channelling political energy into more inward questioning – there are a lot of musicians whose songs are all about feeling, and it’s almost like that’s the only safe place to express yourself.
In politics and life, timing is everything.
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
Surgeon generals are appointed by presidents, but our work isn’t about politics. Our highest duty to to the public. Our true guide is science. Our job is to speak the truth about public health, even when it’s controversial or perceived as political.
The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don’t. It’s a society where relationships are built on love.
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Politics is a rough and tumble business. It’s not for the faint-hearted. I’ve got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
My father was a politician. My grandfather was a politician too, maybe it’s an innate idea of representing people that we have in our family. I won’t go into politics. I think I can provide the voice for the voiceless through law.
I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
Whether you believe it or not, you have to understand the politics. In every script, there is a political bend that the writer has included. Whether you like it or not, is on you. But it’s very important to know that politics.
