Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: politics

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.

My life is politics, reading books and exercise.

My dreams of NHL glory were never fulfilled so I had to settle for politics instead.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

Politics is a conversation between the contestant and the voter.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

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.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

What we see before us is a politics devoid of kindness and truth... today, politics is not being used in the service of the people: it is being used to crush them, not to lift them up.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

Cartoons, if you ask me, are the most powerful weapon in today's politics. Balasaheb Thackeray has proved this.

Politics isn't my cup of tea. I can't lie all the time, beg for votes or put down other politicians.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

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.

People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.

I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.

The lifespan of faith and culture is much more than the ones who play politics in its name.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

In politics, you have to compromise from morning to evening. Democracy is the art of compromise.

Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.

Good government is good politics.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.

With the Internet era and social media and politics being so out there with the lies, now you've got people denying things they're on camera doing, and then you've got people not really caring about the truth. You've got people supporting people who've done horrific things, but just don't want the other side to get any satisfaction.

My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

I never have been involved in politics.

Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.