Politics Quotes
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.
President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.
The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.
There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.
Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?
The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.
If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.
The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.
Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move.
All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.
I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.
I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.
I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a Prime Minister.
The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.
There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.
I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!
Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.
In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.
One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.
Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.
But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.
If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.
Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."
We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
