Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: politics

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

The twenty minutes or more we spend inside the ring, that's the fun part. It's the rest of our lives that's the real battle - the ruthless backstage politics, the constant traveling, the endless mental and physical aches and pains.

People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

We need elected officials who overcome partisan politics to really help people.

San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

If you are a writer from Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, you don't have the luxury of being apolitical. You can't say, 'That's politics. I'm just doing my work.'

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.

My father was a politician. My grandfather was a politician too, maybe it's an innate idea of representing people that we have in our family. I won't go into politics. I think I can provide the voice for the voiceless through law.

I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

I'm in politics to defend the rights of Canadians - to secure a brighter future.

Politics is applied biology.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Since when is politics consistent?

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.