Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: politics

I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more, and I can take more unpopular decisions.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Politics was never in our blood and in our family... I will never return to it.

Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy.

Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.

In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when collaboration was sparse.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Authentic apology is a tricky thing to pull off in politics, which is why it so seldom occurs. Plausible deniability must be preserved. True contrition has to be displayed. Traitors to the cause must be immediately be jettisoned. Most of all, the goal is to stop the bleeding.

The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.

I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

If I were in politics, I'd make both left and right sit down and make good decisions about national health. It's a huge problem, and it is something we all should be part of.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The best politics is no politics.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.