It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics. Use this quote
What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge. Use this quote
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. Use this quote
Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists. Use this quote
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. Use this quote
I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.' Use this quote
Politics swings like a pendulum. Use this quote
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. Use this quote
Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. Use this quote
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. Use this quote
I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? Use this quote
Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game. Use this quote
I have absolutely zero interest in politics. Use this quote
Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago. Use this quote
Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame. Use this quote
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Use this quote
You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work. Use this quote
Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar. Use this quote
