Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: politics

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.

I'm a Republican. I may go into politics myself.

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.

To protect America's security, we are going to have to pull America's military out of the swamp of Washington politics.

I feel like a lot of frustration from Americans comes from when they don't feel like they're being represented in politics.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

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.

By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.

In politics, there are no friends.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

Washington, D.C., had never seen my style of politics.

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

There is so much partisan and tribal politics, from not just those seeking office but potential voters as well, that we never get real attempts at solutions to problems.

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.

Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not giving guru status to dull business people. It fits in with capitalism's anti-mythic myth: the idea that we have liberated ourselves from the dangerous illusions allegedly propagated by art and politics.

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.