Politics Quotes

What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of principles.

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

The political is personal.

Religion is often politics made sacred.

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.

Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

I'm at a place of deep cynicism about American politics.

Identity politics isn't old school! It's still alive and well.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

[Obamacare] has to be enforced because nobody wants it. This is the nature of progressive government they don't care if it's not good for you. It's good for them.

Some of the most memorable moments I've had is to have my family along - who are our greatest ambassadors for peace. Politics will never bring peace, but people will.

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

[Adolf] Hitler didn't discuss politics or military with Eva [Braun]. Not once.

It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.

When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21.

Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,.. is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

It sure is hell to be president.

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.