- Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.
- Television is democracy at its ugliest.
- Paddy Chayefsky on Politics
- Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
- Johann Lamont on Politics
- That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
- Angela Merkel on Politics
- The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
- Ralph Nader on Politics
- The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
- Eric Alterman on Politics
- The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
- Ross Perot on Politics
- The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
- Marilyn Manson on Politics
- The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
- Christopher Hitchens on Politics
- The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
- Emmeline Pankhurst on Politics
- The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
- Konrad Adenauer on Politics
- The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
- Neal Barnard on Politics
- The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
- Nick Clegg on Politics
- The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan on Politics
- The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.
- Frank Luntz on Politics
- The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
- Hillary Clinton on Politics
- The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.
- Terry Eagleton on Politics
- The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
- Mitt Romney on Politics
- The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
- Dante Alighieri on Politics
- The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.
- James Wolcott on Politics
- The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Politics
- The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
- Eric Sevareid on Politics
- The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller on Politics
- The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
- John Cornyn on Politics
- The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
- Pierre Trudeau on Politics
- The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
- The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
- Thomas Sowell on Politics
- The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
- John Major on Politics
- The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
- Gloria Steinem on Politics
- The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
- Theodore White on Politics
- The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.
- Christian Siriano on Politics
- 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.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Politics
- The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
- Christopher Lasch on Politics
- The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
- Jerry Falwell on Politics
- The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
- Adlai E. Stevenson on Politics
- The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
- Kathryn Bigelow on Politics
- The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.
- Lucy Powell on Politics
- The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.
- Michael Pollan on Politics
- The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
- Robert Reich on Politics
- The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.
- Hugh Sidey on Politics
- The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
- Sarah Palin on Politics
- The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
- Glenn Beck on Politics
- The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Politics
- The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
- Alphonse De Lamartine on Politics
- The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.
- Sophia Bush on Politics
- The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
- Will Rogers on Politics
- The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
- Louis D. Brandeis on Politics
- The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
- Theodore Roosevelt on Politics
- The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
- Aldous Huxley on Politics
- The movies were custard compared to politics.
- Nancy Reagan on Politics
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