Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: politics

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.

It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.

Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.

Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.

I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn't. I started getting really excited about politics.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress. I wanted more than that, and I had always loved politics, so I ended up changing my major completely, and double-majoring in theater and international relations.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

Great leaders find a way to rise above politics while at the same time keeping their party's loyalists in the fold.

We don't have to settle for disgraceful politics. We don't have to settle for being as terrible as Donald Trump.

I'm not saying I shouldn't have to pay any taxes, but I shouldn't have to pay as many as somebody that votes. I don't vote because I don't know anything about politics. And honestly, I can't believe they'd let me. Isn't that an important thing? They'll just let me pick the president! I don't gotta know anything!

Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family; you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.

Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.

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.

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.

My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way.

The most important virtue in politics was once thought to be likeability. But in Corbyn, dislikeable was king. Actually, dislikeability reached its apotheosis in Donald Trump, who exhibited sourness, truculence and negativity in every step and tweet.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with.

Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know?

There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

People get involved not just in politics but in groups and sects and... forget the main reason why we're here: to worship Allah.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

I want to point out, there are a lot of politicians who enjoy the political end of politics, but they're not interested in governance. And then, there are some that are really interested in governance and are just terrible at politics.

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

I don't get that involved in politics because I'm in my dance bubble.

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

I will never join politics under any circumstances.

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.