Politics is not perfect but it’s the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
It’s about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
I knew I would work in a community that I would like to live in, but I had no idea that I would ever go into politics, even though some of my classmates thought I would.
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks – upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics – is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Since when is politics consistent?
I’m in politics to change things – if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples’ sandcastles.
There’s an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
The bull market, rising prices, earning lots of money, make it seem as if the good days will never end. When prices are falling and there is a recession, that also feels as though it will last for ever. Politics is the same. People simply can’t imagine changing circumstances.
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‘the rich’ to pay ‘their fair share’ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
I think I’d probably shine really well in a team sport, but as everybody knows, I don’t handle politics very well. A lot of team sports has a lot of politics. Individual sports, it’s all about me.
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
As politics is not subtraction but addition, those who share views and ideas need to join forces and they have to cooperate with political opponents even after they win an election.
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
Most people don’t realize, I really have no faith in politics. I’m not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don’t.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Throughout my years championing for civil rights, analyzing politics and advocating on behalf of the voiceless, I am disturbed the most when harmless children suffer because of politics or detrimental policies.
I don’t get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can’t do anything.
Today, people call each other ‘guys’ – this derives from Guy Fawkes, the bomb-making terrorist. No greater tribute has ever been paid to anyone in the history of politics.
I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.
I adore my family. I don’t love their politics. I think they’re wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared, smothered by the widespread and bipartisan conviction that the United States needed to stay engaged with the world to prevent future crises.
I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.
Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.
Politics makes me sick.
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin’s bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.
When you’re a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you’re in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
Jayalalitha cannot be misled about anything. She is one of the most well informed persons today in Indian politics.
The days of pay-to-play politics is over.
All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.
Politics was never in our blood and in our family… I will never return to it.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Politics ruins the character.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
