Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: politics

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

Uncle Matheson and my father would frequently argue long into the night about politics. Like me, he was all about socialism, togetherness and investing in people, whereas Matheson, to this day, holds very strong conservative views.

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

In 2010, Republicans took control of politics in Alabama by advocating for increased transparency and an end to government corruption, but instead of ending it, they have raised the level of corruption to the point that the stench of dishonesty fills the air, decadence drives policy, and bribery is the norm in Montgomery.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then.

Judges make tough decisions on child abuse, divorce, property disputes, drunk driving, domestic violence and other issues that should be free from politics.

My view of Sarah Palin is she is the most dynamic figure maybe in politics, even more in some ways than President Obama, who is a little more scripted than she is. He is great with the teleprompter.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Remember: real politics isn't about figureheads and seats in parliament. Real politics is about ideas. And there can be no doubt regarding the extreme ideas that have been gaining ground in the Netherlands for decades.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

I consider politics very boring.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot.

I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

I am so sick and tired of participating in this predictable cycle of politics, where a mass shooting happens, the left calls for new gun laws - some meaningful, some unproductive - the right yells 'slippery slope' and hides behind the Constitution.

Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden.

Neither politics of chaos and anarchy has succeeded earlier and nor will succeed in future.

I'm not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.